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On the evening of June 25, 2015, 29-year-old Jamil Payne was found lying in the middle of South Park Street in Elizabeth, New Jersey, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Police responded to reports of gunfire near Sixth Street and South Park Street shortly after 9:50 p.m.; Payne was pronounced dead at the scene. His death was one of several shootings across the city that night that left two other men dead and another seriously injured.

Investigators connected Payne’s killing to the other June 25 incidents after ballistics showed the same .38-caliber revolver was used. The investigation identified 22-year-old Todd West of Elizabeth as the person responsible for the day’s shootings. An arrest warrant for Payne’s murder was issued July 2, 2015; West was located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and arrested on July 6, 2015. He was charged in New Jersey with the murders of Jamil Payne, Dennis Vega, and Kelvin Nelson and the attempted murder of Richard Marte, and was also linked to an earlier homicide of his cousin Michael Thompkins on May 18, 2015.

Does anyone have information about Payne’s final movements or who saw him that night?