On October 17, 2014, 29-year-old Cassan Yashir Powell of Irvington, New Jersey, was fatally shot in the 700 block of Springfield Avenue in Newark at about 1:30 a.m. Two other people were wounded in the same shooting and survived. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and the Newark Police Department opened an active investigation; authorities had not released a motive.

Powell was a father to a son named Yashir and is survived by his parents, Sharon Powell and Derrick Hester, and other relatives.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about Cassan Powell’s death, please share what is known with investigators.