On January 29, 2017, firefighters forced entry into an apartment on Van Ness Court in Maplewood, New Jersey, for a well being check and found three people dead of gunshot wounds. One of the victims was 44-year-old Lance Fraser of Newark; the others were 45-year-old Michael Davis, a resident of the apartment, and 30-year-old Roshana Kenilson of Paterson. The slayings were Maplewood’s first homicide in nearly five years.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, assisted by the Maplewood Police Department and the FBI, investigated. Within two weeks authorities arrested two men: 37-year-old Jimmy P. Mays in Columbia, Maryland, and 33-year-old Lavelle T. Davis in Yonkers, New York. They were charged with murder, conspiracy, felony murder, robbery and weapons offenses. Prosecutors said the motive was robbery for cash and drugs, and court records noted that Lance Fraser had been tortured during the incident.

Does anyone have information about Fraser’s life in Newark or his connections to the victims that could help clarify what led to that night?