In the early hours of June 9, 2017, gunfire struck a vehicle on Hollywood Avenue in East Orange, New Jersey, killing 19-year-old Dy-Shawn Simpkins Jr and his 29-year-old cousin Keeayre Griffin; a third occupant was wounded and taken to hospital and was expected to survive. Simpkins, a recent graduate of Paramus Catholic High School and a football player at Norfolk State University, was found unresponsive in the car and pronounced dead at the scene.

His parents, Dy-Shawn Sr. and Deborah Simpkins, were active in youth advocacy, a bitter contrast to their son’s death from the violence they opposed. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and East Orange Police processed the scene and sought public help, but no arrests or public suspect identifications were reported in the weeks that followed and the investigation remained open.

Does anyone have information about that night or remember seeing anything on Hollywood Avenue around June 9, 2017?