In the early morning hours of September 1, 2014, gunfire broke out outside a townhouse on Schmidt Lane in North Brunswick, New Jersey. Brian Hoey, 43, a resident of that community, was found and pronounced dead at the scene; he had been shot seven times. Police were called at 1:26 a.m. and Hoey was pronounced dead at 1:54 a.m.

The North Brunswick Police Department and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office investigated and focused on a neighbor after reports of a dispute between the men. There were no eyewitnesses to the shooting and the murder weapon was never recovered, but prosecutors presented a circumstantial case that included threats the neighbor had allegedly made to his girlfriend.

After a month-long inquiry, authorities arrested the next-door neighbor, Roland Amos. In February 2017 a jury convicted Amos of murder and weapons offenses; in May 2017 he was sentenced to 80 years in state prison with a minimum of 40 years before parole eligibility. Did anyone in the North Brunswick community know about tensions between these neighbors or have information about the night of September 1, 2014?