On the evening of August 23, 2013, 26-year-old Jafar Raheed Lewis, known in the local hip-hop scene as Young Farr, was shot on Middle Rose Street in Trenton, New Jersey. Lewis was in a car with his fiancée, Twanna Robinson, when another vehicle pulled up alongside them. Both Lewis and the other driver, identified by Robinson as Wayne Bush, exited their cars and a confrontation followed.

Robinson said she heard two gunshots and then saw Lewis on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head; she stated Lewis was unarmed. Lewis was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead early the next morning, August 24, 2013. His death was recorded as the 31st homicide in Trenton that year.

Bush, then 35 and related to Lewis’s family by engagement to Lewis’s mother’s niece, fled the scene but later surrendered to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office on August 30, 2013. He was indicted on murder and weapons charges. Was anyone in the neighborhood that night aware of the earlier disagreement between the men or saw what happened on Middle Rose Street?