A late-afternoon shooting outside a city workplace left a Newark Health Department employee dead in October 2016. On a Friday in late afternoon, gunfire erupted near Arts High School and the Newark Health Department; 33-year-old Davion Jackson was found in the 100 block of Williams Street with a gunshot wound. Emergency responders took him to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m.

Jackson worked full time for the City of Newark in the Health Department’s medical records department after a transfer from Neighborhood Services. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Task Force and Newark Police detectives opened an active investigation; authorities did not release a motive or identify any suspects at the time.

If anyone who worked with Davion or was in that area that afternoon has information, please come forward to help the investigation.