On the evening of January 20, 2016, gunfire rang out in the Wilbur neighborhood of Trenton, New Jersey. At about 8:30 p.m. police found 21-year-old Tyquise Timmons, a Black male, lying on the porch of a residence on the 100 block of Walnut Avenue with a fatal gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, a few blocks from his home on Monmouth Street. Witnesses reported hearing as many as eight shots, and numerous evidence markers were later placed on the street and sidewalk.

The Mercer County Homicide Task Force took over the investigation. The shooting was the city’s third homicide of 2016. In the days after the killing a man from Ewing was arrested on a firearm possession charge moments after driving away from Timmons’ funeral, which had an increased police presence; however, no arrests have been made in connection with Timmons’ murder and no suspects have been publicly identified. The case remains unsolved.

If anyone knew Tyquise or has information about what happened on Walnut Avenue that night, please come forward.