Jaime Walker was 18 when he was fatally shot on the evening of December 17, 2014, while walking on Orange Avenue in Irvington, New Jersey, with a friend. Davon Arrington was shot in the face in the same attack but survived, suffering a broken jaw and a severed tongue. Authorities described the shooting as connected to earlier events rather than random violence.

Walker and Arrington had been witnesses to a murder one month earlier, on November 18, 2014, in which the victim was Mencea Ryner. Jerrell Alexander, later convicted for Ryner’s murder, was implicated in the attack on Walker and Arrington; Alexander was acquitted of conspiracy to kill Walker but convicted of unlawful possession of a 9mm handgun, the same caliber used in Walker’s shooting, and received an eight-year term on the weapons charge in addition to a 40-year sentence for Ryner’s murder.

A second man, Jassiem Harper, was charged with Jaime Walker’s murder and as a co-conspirator in the shooting; his case was severed for separate proceedings. Are there readers who knew Jaime or who have information about the events that led to the December 17 shooting?