Rajan E. Ridley was a 32-year-old Black man who was fatally shot in Newark, New Jersey, on April 21, 2015. The shooting was counted as the city’s 23rd homicide that year and is described as a targeted attack; Ridley was shot multiple times in a neighborhood then seeing a rise in violent crime.

The Newark Police Department and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation, but investigators faced significant obstacles, including witnesses reluctant to come forward. Despite later operations and arrests for other violent crimes in Newark, no suspects were ever tied to Ridley’s killing and the case remains unsolved.

Anyone with information about Rajan Ridley’s death or who was in that neighborhood on April 21, 2015, is asked to come forward.