Armani D. McPhall was 19 when he was fatally shot on December 22, 2016, shortly before 8 p.m. near the entrance of Vailsburg Wine and Liquors on the 900 block of South Orange Avenue in Newark. Responding officers found McPhall with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Major Crimes Task Force, with Newark detectives, investigated. In-store video footage captured the shooting and investigators identified Mustafa Hill, 43, who lived a few blocks from the location. Hill was arrested and charged the same evening.

In September 2018 Hill pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter, admitting he shot McPhall multiple times with a 9mm handgun, and received a 25-year New Jersey State Prison sentence with parole eligibility after serving 85 percent and five years of parole supervision on release. Did anyone in the area see activity near Vailsburg Wine and Liquors that night?