In the summer of 2014 a meeting arranged as a marijuana sale ended in homicide for 22-year-old Nhat Tran of Camden, New Jersey. Tran was found in his tan Nissan Sentra at 34th Street and Rosedale Avenue in East Camden on July 26, 2014, having been shot. He was taken to Cooper University Hospital but died of his injuries, the city’s 20th homicide that year.

Investigators say the sale was a setup for a robbery. A struggle occurred inside Tran’s vehicle and he was shot; the assailant fled with the drugs. Detectives traced a phone used to arrange the meeting to 19-year-old Jose A. Lopez of Pennsauken. Lopez was arrested and charged with felony murder and armed robbery; court records show he admitted planning the robbery and shooting Tran, then attempted to destroy evidence by burning clothing, replacing his phone, and selling the handgun. Video shown at arraignment placed Lopez with Tran shortly before the killing, and bail was set at $1.5 million.

Did anyone in Camden at the time see Tran’s tan Nissan Sentra around 34th and Rosedale on July 26, 2014?