In the early morning hours of February 23, 2016, 34-year-old Omar Heyward of Irvington was found in the street on the 100 block of Manchester Place in Newark’s North Ward with multiple gunshot wounds. A call came in at about 6:51 a.m.; emergency responders arrived but by 7:11 a.m. Heyward was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and the Newark Police Department opened an investigation and have described the shooting as targeted rather than random, but a clear motive has not been established.

If anyone has information about what happened that morning or knew Omar, please contact the investigative leads handling the case.