Miguel ’Chuito’ Lopez Jr. was 53 and a longtime barber from Vineland, New Jersey. On January 15, 2017, he stopped to help after a vehicle crash in Bridgeton and offered a ride to the driver, identified as Jule L. Hannah. Around 8:30 a.m. on Spruce Street, police found Lopez dead in the driver’s seat of his car, which had crashed; he had been shot four times and investigators determined the fatal shots were fired from the passenger seat.

A nine-month investigation led detectives to Jule L. Hannah. He was arrested in October 2017 and ultimately tried; a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder and in 2021 he was sentenced to 45 years in state prison. In August 2024 an appellate court vacated the conviction and ordered a new trial because of how cell tower data was presented at the original trial by a detective who was not qualified as an expert.

Does anyone have information about Lopez’s last movements that could help clarify what happened that morning?