In the spring of 2017, 33-year-old Dino Bermudez of Newark was shot on the 300 block of Myrtle Avenue in Irvington, New Jersey. The shooting happened on the afternoon of Friday, May 12; emergency services took him to University Hospital in Newark, and he died of his wound two days later.

Investigators later pursued multiple suspects. In July 2017, detectives from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and an FBI Task Force arrested 37-year-old Ali King of Newark and charged him with murder, felony murder, conspiracy, and weapons offenses; the Prosecutor’s Office emphasized those were accusations and the defendant was presumed innocent. In November 2017 authorities announced they were searching for 48-year-old Dennis M. Cunningham, saying he had fled New Jersey and was believed to be in the Atlanta, Georgia, area; Cunningham was charged in absentia with murder, robbery, and weapons offenses, and a federal unlawful flight to avoid prosecution charge was filed.

Two different men have figured in the investigation: one arrested, one sought as a fugitive. If anyone has information about Dino’s death or Dennis Cunningham’s whereabouts, please share what is known.