On the morning of July 14, 2017, 38-year-old Desiree Alvarado of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was sitting in a parked car on Seventh Street between Livingston and Joyce Kilmer avenues when she was struck in the neck by a bullet. Emergency services took her to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, where she died on July 18, 2017 from complications of the gunshot wound; the manner of death was ruled a homicide. She was a mother of four and worked as a medical receptionist.

Investigators with the New Brunswick Police Department and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office identified a suspect from nearby North Brunswick, 25-year-old Christian Cortes, who was arrested in connection with the shooting. Authorities say Cortes had been robbed earlier that day while attempting to buy marijuana, believed he had been set up, and fired into the parked car of the man he held responsible; tinted windows on the vehicle hid Alvarado inside.

Does anyone have information about Desiree, her movements that morning, or the people who were in that neighborhood on July 14, 2017?