On June 25, 2015, 28-year-old Dennis Vega of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was found dead near New Point Road and 7th Street from a fatal shooting. His killing was later linked to a series of shootings that struck the area that summer.

Authorities identified Todd West as the suspect in Vega’s murder and in a string of related attacks. Investigators say West, driving a white Buick LaCrosse and armed with a .38 caliber revolver, shot multiple people in a matter of hours on June 25, killing Jamil Payne and Kelvin Nelson and seriously wounding another man who survived. The investigation also connected West to an earlier slaying of his cousin Michael Thompkins about a month before, and to three additional murders in Easton and Allentown, Pennsylvania, over the July 4 weekend.

West reportedly told authorities he believed the devil forced him to commit the killings. A grand jury indicted him in December 2016 for the New Jersey murders, while he was already serving sentences in Pennsylvania for the killings there.

Did anyone in Elizabeth at the time remember unusual activity around New Point Road and 7th Street on June 25, 2015?