A family dispute over money ended in fatal violence in Newark on June 26, 2017. Jovan Johnson, 29, was shot and killed in the Avon Avenue apartment he shared with his older brother. Concerned relatives who could not reach Johnson called police, and officers found his body at the scene.

Investigators quickly focused on the older brother, Ervwakine Pryor, then 39. In the hours after the killing Pryor told a friend while riding to a Home Depot that he had killed his brother and that he had killed his daughter’s cat, Skylar, which he described as a witness. Pryor bought a reciprocating saw at the store; police later found evidence that someone had attempted to dismember Johnson’s remains. Pryor was arrested and charged with murder, unlawful weapons offenses, animal cruelty, and unlawfully disturbing human remains. An Essex County jury convicted Pryor on all counts, and he received a 75-year state prison sentence.

Does anyone have additional details about Jovan Johnson’s life or the family that could help fill out the timeline leading up to June 26, 2017?