On the night of June 21, 2017, 21-year-old Andrew Torres was shot and killed at the Loop Inn Motel in Avenel, New Jersey. Torres answered the door to a motel room where he had been with two women and a 24-year-old man from the Bronx who was the apparent target of a planned robbery. Two men came to the door; Torres was shot immediately after opening it and was pronounced dead at the scene a little over thirty minutes after police arrived. The 24-year-old target was found critically injured and taken to University Hospital in Newark.

Investigators traced the robbery plot to several people. A Bronx man identified as Kasheen Samuels, known as Kash, was said to have helped plan the robbery, supplied the firearm used in the attack, and received some of the stolen jewelry. A jury later found Samuels guilty of felony murder of Andrew Torres and related robbery charges after a nine-day trial.

Are there readers who remember the Loop Inn area or who have information about that night?