In the late hours of a Friday night in September 2014, gunfire erupted on North 9th Street in the Roseville section of Newark. Twenty-eight-year-old Andrew Peppers was struck and taken to a nearby hospital; he was pronounced dead in the early hours of Saturday, September 27, 2014. A man and a woman were also wounded in the same shooting and treated for injuries that were not considered life-threatening.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation but did not release a motive or identify suspects at the time. There have been no public announcements of arrests connected to Peppers’s death. The shooting remains an unresolved loss for his family and the community.

If anyone knew Andrew, was in the Roseville area that night, or has information that could help the investigation, please come forward.