On the evening of April 30, 2016, Taquan Boston, a 26-year-old Black man from Newark, was found by police on Isabella Avenue in the West Ward suffering multiple gunshot wounds. Officers responded to reports of shots fired around 8:40 p.m.; Boston was pronounced dead at the scene less than 20 minutes later.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, with detectives from the Newark Police Department, led the investigation. Within days a suspect was identified and arrested: Meljia T. Oliver, a 31-year-old man from East Orange, was charged with murder and weapons offenses and held on $1 million bail. The motive for the shooting was not immediately released.

If anyone has information about what happened on Isabella Avenue that night or knew Taquan, please share what you know.