Pierre Collins was 35 and a father of two when he was shot in East Orange, New Jersey, shortly before 2 a.m. on April 3, 2017. He was in the area of Ashland Avenue and Prospect Terrace when gunfire erupted; officers found him with gunshot wounds and he later died at University Hospital.

Investigators focused on a single suspect after initially searching for an unknown assailant. Collins made a phone call to a friend just moments before he died saying the suspect was pointing a gun at him. Detectives arrested 26-year-old Akeeme Thompson and charged him with Collins’s murder. A jury convicted Thompson of first-degree murder, unlawful possession of a handgun, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and he was sentenced to 30 years to life. The motive was described as a dispute between the two men.

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