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On the evening of August 20, 2016, 24-year-old Byron Turner was shot outside his home on the 100 block of East Federal Street in Burlington, New Jersey. Police found Turner with a gunshot wound to the head just before 7 p.m.; he was taken to Cooper University Hospital in Camden and died about three hours later. The shooting occurred in a residential area where children were playing; a five-year-old girl, reported to be Turner’s cousin, was injured in the chaos, not by gunfire, and was treated and released from a local hospital.

Authorities identified 26-year-old Samuel James of Burlington Township as a suspect within a day and issued a murder warrant. He was captured August 22, 2016, by the Burlington County Sheriff’s Department Warrant Unit and the U.S. Marshals Service at an acquaintance’s home in Barrington. Court filings later stated the bullet that killed Turner was intended for someone else in the group on the street that evening. Was anyone in the neighborhood that night able to help identify who the intended target was or what led to the shooting?