In the early morning hours of September 11, 2016, gunfire erupted on Van Wagenen Avenue in Jersey City. Officers who responded to reports of shots fired at about 2:10 a.m. found 35-year-old Shaheer Parson unresponsive at 87 Van Wagenen Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body. He was pronounced dead at the scene; the medical examiner ruled the cause of death a gunshot wound and the manner homicide.

Three other people were wounded in the same barrage of bullets. At 95 Van Wagenen Avenue, Nina Green, 32, Diana Green, 35, and Leslie Smith, 24, suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds to their upper extremities. They were treated at the scene and taken to Jersey City Medical Center in stable condition.

Detectives from the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide and Gang Unit and the Jersey City Police Department arrested 19-year-old Kenneth Barnes on December 13, 2016, charging him with murder, attempted murder, two counts of aggravated assault and multiple firearms offenses. In August 2018 Barnes, then 21, pleaded guilty to Parson’s murder and admitted shooting him in the head; the plea carried a term of up to 15 years in prison. Did anyone in the community witness activity on Van Wagenen Avenue that night or have information that hasn’t been shared with investigators?