Oneil Linton was 23 when he was killed in Paterson, New Jersey, during the early morning hours of May 18, 2014. Linton, who lived in Lodi, was outside a house at 526 14th Avenue in Paterson’s Eastside neighborhood where neighbors said a gathering was taking place. A witness across the street reported hearing two gunshots at about 5:30 a.m., then seeing Linton on the ground while an assailant struck him with the gun. His body was found beside the passenger side of a silver Honda parked outside the residence.

Known to friends as Fuzzy, Linton had come to the United States from Jamaica about five years earlier with his father. Friends remembered him as a people person. Reports say he suffered fatal gunshot wounds and was beaten during the attack. Authorities later focused the investigation on Michael Brown, 33, who allegedly disappeared after the killing and was located and arrested in an abandoned house in Orange, New Jersey, in late November 2014. Brown was charged with murder and pleaded not guilty at a court appearance on November 26, 2014.

If anyone knew Oneil Linton, his movements that night, or has information about the attack, please share what is known.