Karelis Agudo was 23 when she was shot and killed on a Newark street in the early morning hours of a Saturday in June 2016. The shooting happened near 13 Grafton Avenue at about 3:44 a.m.; emergency responders pronounced her dead at 4:14 a.m. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and Newark Police investigated the case and announced an active probe in the days after the killing, but no arrests were reported at that time.

The motive for the shooting was not established in the immediate aftermath, and the case later went cold with no public identification of suspects. If anyone remembers seeing activity in the 13 Grafton Avenue area that night or has information about Karelis Agudo’s death, please come forward to help her family and investigators.