Joseph Micalizzi was shot and killed during a robbery at his fraternity house in Newark, New Jersey, in the early morning of May 2, 2016. The 23-year-old mechanical engineering student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, a transfer from Brookdale Community College who had made the dean’s list, was studying with his roommate on the third floor of the Tau Kappa Epsilon house on Martin Luther King Boulevard when two men broke in at about 3:15 a.m. A struggle followed and Micalizzi was shot three times; he was taken to University Hospital and pronounced dead.

Authorities charged 22-year-old Taquan Harris of Newark and 18-year-old Nafee Cotman of Irvington after investigators concluded the house had been targeted randomly while the suspects sought cash. Both men were charged with murder, felony murder, robbery, burglary and weapons offenses; Harris was arrested after a brief manhunt and Cotman was in custody. As of 2018–2019 both men entered plea agreements and received prison sentences for their roles in the robbery and fatal shooting.

Does anyone have information about Joseph’s time at NJIT or about the fraternity house that could shed more light on the night of the robbery?