On the morning of August 22, 2014, Jose R. Rivas, a 26-year-old Hispanic man who ran Yesi Supermarket on Osbourne Terrace in Newark, was forced into a silver four-door car by several men as he arrived to open the store. A short time later a passerby found him about half a mile away on Hunterdon Street, bleeding from a gunshot wound. He was taken to University Hospital but was pronounced dead in the ambulance.

Rivas, who had moved from the Dominican Republic at age eight, was remembered by family and customers as hardworking and generous with no known enemies. Investigators believe robbery was the motive; his house key and cellphone were missing. A $5,000 reward was offered, but no suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been made.