On the afternoon of June 29, 2017, Malcolm Gardner, 26, was shot on the 300 block of Hawthorne Avenue in Newark’s South Ward. Reports place the gunfire at about 2:40 p.m.; EMS took Gardner to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:15 p.m. A 27-year-old woman was grazed by a bullet in the same burst of gunfire and was treated and released.

Born August 14, 1990, Gardner’s death was followed by an Islamic burial service in Newark and by online remembrances from family and neighbors in the Millington, West Runyon, and Hawthorne Avenue area. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and the Newark Police Department opened a homicide investigation and appealed for tips; authorities stated no suspects had been identified and no arrests had been made.

Does anyone in the Millington or South Ward area have information that could help investigators or the family?