On the evening of April 22, 2015, Moses E. Beasley, 26, was fatally shot in the 200 block of 14th Avenue in Newark. Emergency responders arrived about 7:45 p.m. and found Beasley with gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at 8:09 p.m. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and the Newark Police Department opened a homicide investigation and canvassed the neighborhood for witnesses and evidence.

In the days and weeks after the killing officials reported no suspects had been identified and no arrests were made. If anyone in the neighborhood that night saw or heard anything that could help, please come forward with information.