Shortly after 1 a.m. on December 9, 2017, gunfire struck a vehicle parked on the 300 block of Myrtle Avenue in Irvington, New Jersey. Inside that car, 33-year-old Ahmad J. Carson of Newark and another man were found with gunshot wounds. Emergency responders pronounced Carson dead at the scene at 1:44 a.m.; the other man, 26 and also from Newark, was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Task Force and Irvington detectives opened an active investigation. No arrests were announced in the days following the shooting. The incident was recorded as the township’s sixth homicide that year.

If anyone has information about what happened on Myrtle Avenue that morning, please share tips with the investigators handling the case.