Marquise Carruthers was 19 and lived in Irvington, New Jersey when he was shot shortly after midnight on November 15, 2014. The shooting occurred in the 900 block of Clinton Avenue; EMS took him to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:18 a.m. the same morning.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and the Irvington Police Department opened an immediate investigation. In the days after the shooting investigators described the probe as active and ongoing; no suspects had been identified and no arrests were announced. The Essex County Sheriff’s Crime Stoppers Program offered up to a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

If anyone has information about Marquise Carruthers’ death or was in the area of Clinton Avenue that night, contact the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force.