On the morning of September 10, 2017, 29-year-old Denzel N. Uwubiti of Newark was found unresponsive inside a vehicle in the 100 block of North 5th Street after reports of a shooting. Officers arrived about 2:40 a.m.; emergency medical personnel transported Uwubiti to University Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3:11 a.m. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Task Force and Newark detectives opened an investigation into the fatal shooting.

On April 26, 2018, authorities announced arrests in the case. Two Newark residents, Lenwood Thompson, 39, and Chance Venable, 47, were taken into custody by the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and the FBI Fugitive Task Force. Both were charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, unlawful possession of a weapon, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose; Thompson was also charged with aggravated arson and both were held at the Essex County Correctional Facility.

Are there witnesses or information about the shooting that have not yet come forward?