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Maurice Wimbush-Jalaah, 15, was shot and killed in daylight on June 11, 2016, in the Prospect Village Trenton Housing Authority complex. Officers found him on the ground at about 3:45 p.m.; he was taken to Capital Health Regional Medical Center and pronounced dead there.

Within hours investigators detained three other teenagers from Trenton: Wilson George, then 19; Jashawn Smith, 18; and Juprie Wadley, 19. Smith and Wadley were stopped fleeing the scene and were initially charged with weapons offenses; George was released at first but later charged after a gun was recovered on Louise Lane. Prosecutors said investigators believed the shooting was tied to a dispute between residents of Prospect Village and the North 25 Housing complex and described the case as an extremely strong circumstantial case based on three recovered handguns, bullets, and shell casings.

In 2018 the three men pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated manslaughter and received 15-year state prison sentences. Does anyone have additional information about Maurice, the Prospect Village community, or witnesses from that afternoon?