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Devin Smith, 23, was shot and killed inside the Applebee’s in Lawrence Township on November 14, 2017. According to reports, Smith was seated alone at the bar just after midnight when a man entered the restaurant at about 12:25 a.m. and fatally shot him in the head. Medics pronounced Smith dead at the scene.

Authorities identified the suspect as 27-year-old Noel Powell III of Lawrence Township and said the shooting grew out of an unresolved feud between the two men. Powell was arrested on November 19, 2017, in Trenton by the Mercer County Homicide Task Force and the U.S. Marshals NY/NJ Regional Fugitive Task Force and was charged with murder and weapons offenses; a Mercer County grand jury later returned indictments in February 2018. The victim was a father to a young daughter.

If anyone was at the Applebee’s that night or has information about the dispute between Smith and Powell, please share what you know.