On the morning of Saturday, February 25, 2017, 31-year-old Tajmiah Phillips of Newark was fatally shot at about 1:30 a.m. in the 100 block of Hillside Terrace in Irvington. Her death was recorded as the township’s first homicide of the year and investigators from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide-Major Crimes Task Force and the Irvington Police Department opened an active investigation into the shooting. Friends and family remembered Phillips, who was also known as Mia.

Investigators developed a focus on 54-year-old Timothy McAllister of Newark and located him at an apartment complex near Whiteville, North Carolina. When a joint law enforcement task force moved in on a Friday in March, officers heard a single gunshot from inside; they found McAllister with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and he was taken to a local hospital. McAllister faced a murder charge in connection with Phillips’s death and separate weapons violations in New Jersey.

Does anyone have information about Phillips’s last known movements or who she was with that night?