A morning visit between cousins in Newark ended in a violent killing. Jerome T. Brown, a 27-year-old Black man, was meeting with his cousin Tamodd Young in the South Ward on March 21, 2016 when, at about 9:24 a.m. in the single-digit block of Schley Street, Young produced a firearm and opened fire. Security footage recorded Young continuing to shoot after Brown had fallen. Brown was struck twelve times, including five shots to the head, and was taken to University Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 9:57 a.m.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and the Newark Police Department investigated. Prosecutors described the killing as a cold-blooded murder and said no clear motive was established. A jury later convicted Tamodd Young of murder and weapons offenses after a three-week trial; the jury deliberated about an hour and a half before returning a guilty verdict.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see Jerome or those two men around Schley Street that morning, or have information about what led to the meeting?