On the evening of November 19, 2017, a burst of gunfire in Newark’s 900 block of South 18th Street left 26-year-old Yasin Hamilton dead. The shooting happened at about 7:18 p.m.; medics arrived quickly but Hamilton was pronounced dead at the scene eight minutes later.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, including Newark Police detectives, took over the investigation and appealed to the public for information. No arrests were reported immediately after the shooting and the probe was described as active and ongoing.

Earlier in 2017 Hamilton had been among 27 people indicted in a probe into a gang-related heroin distribution network; authorities alleged he was a sergeant in the Red Breed Gorillas set of the Bloods and charged him and others with first-degree gang criminality, conspiracy and related offenses. Does anyone from Newark remember seeing or hearing anything about that shooting or Hamilton that could help investigators?