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In late summer 2016, 19-year-old Lance Beckett was killed in Trenton’s West Ward after being lured into an alley on East Stuyvesant Avenue on the afternoon of September 18, 2016. Surveillance footage showed Beckett interacting with three people shortly before the shooting. He was struck multiple times — including shots to the neck and left shoulder — and a final fatal shot entered through his back; witnesses said he was also stomped. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Three people were identified in connection with the crime: Quashawn Emanuel, then 18; Mada Eoff, then 17; and Omar Kennedy, 34. Emanuel admitted to helping set up Beckett and he and Eoff were arrested within days; Kennedy was arrested about three weeks later in Richmond, Virginia. All were charged with murder and weapons offenses; Eoff’s case was moved to adult court. Emanuel later pleaded guilty to reckless manslaughter, Kennedy pleaded to third-degree aggravated assault with a recommended three-year sentence, and a jury convicted Eoff of murder despite no DNA, murder weapon, or fingerprints tying him to the shooting. He was sentenced to 38 years in prison.

Does anyone have information about Beckett’s final movements that afternoon or the people seen with him on surveillance?