Devion Burch was 20 when he was shot in Newark on November 28, 2016. Police responded to a residence in the 100 block of South 10th Street about 4:00 p.m. after a report of a shooting. Officers found Burch unresponsive inside the home with a gunshot wound; he was taken to University Hospital and pronounced dead at 4:24 p.m. that same day.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and the Newark Police Department opened an active investigation into the fatal shooting. No information about arrests, identified suspects, motive, or the specific circumstances of the shooting has been released. An obituary for Burch appeared in early December 2016.

If anyone has information about what happened that afternoon on South 10th Street, please come forward.