Marcus Corey Ellis, 25, was fatally shot on the evening of August 31, 2016, on the 700 block of Hillside Avenue in Plainfield. The shooting occurred at about 11 p.m.; Ellis and a 26-year-old man were found with gunshot wounds and taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where Ellis was pronounced dead around 11:45 p.m. A third man, 30, also sustained a gunshot wound and drove himself to a local hospital. The two other victims survived with non-life-threatening injuries.

Ellis was a Kean University student preparing for his senior year, on the Dean’s List and studying history with plans to become a professor. A Plainfield High School graduate who held an associate’s degree from Union County College, he was remembered as bright, funny, and compassionate. The Union County Homicide Task Force and local agencies investigated and Union County Crime Stoppers offered up to a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment. No arrests have been publicly reported and no suspects have been named.

Did anyone in the Plainfield or Kean University community see or hear anything that night that could help bring answers?