On the evening of New Year’s Day 2018, gunfire in the 100 block of Taylor Street in Orange, New Jersey, ended the lives of two local men. Officers arriving at about 7 p.m. found 50-year-old Randall Price and 41-year-old Rodney Chery with apparent gunshot wounds. Price was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:44 p.m.; Chery was taken to University Hospital in Newark, underwent surgery, and was pronounced dead at 10:40 p.m.

The Orange Police Department and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force opened an active, ongoing investigation. No information about suspects or arrests was released in the initial reports. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force.