On December 20, 2015, a midday shooting on Summerfield Avenue in Asbury Park left 24-year-old Jamar Small dead. Small, a celebrated local football star who had played at Texas Southern University and earned a business administration degree, had returned to his hometown and was working as a drug counselor and mentor to local youth. He was shot in the abdomen while backing a car out of a driveway; his brother Tyreek, 25, was shot in the back and survived.

Investigators tied the attack to an altercation the previous day and reported that minutes before the shooting the suspect had threatened a female relative of the brothers with a handgun on Bangs Avenue. Police identified 23-year-old Diquan Gudda Speights of Asbury Park as the shooter; in February 2016 he was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree attempted murder. Speights later pleaded guilty and in June 2017 received a 16-year state prison term, with at least 85 percent to be served before parole, and a concurrent 10-year sentence for the aggravated assault of Tyreek Small.

Did anyone in Asbury Park know Jamar or Tyreek and have details about the altercation that preceded the shooting?