On the evening of July 23, 2013, Rasheen Rinell Jones, a 31-year-old Black man and a well-known local barber of 15 years, left for a convenience store in Trenton, New Jersey and never returned. While walking back down East Stuyvesant Avenue he was robbed and shot in the head, dying from the gunshot wound.

Investigators identified two suspects, Zaire K. Smith and Knovell Desmond. Arrest warrants followed; Smith was taken into custody in Trenton by the U.S. Marshals Service New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force on August 22, 2013, and Desmond was arrested in Lindenwold on August 30, 2013. Both were jailed on $1 million bail.

Desmond pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery on December 17, 2014, with murder and weapons counts to be addressed at sentencing. Smith went to trial and in February 2019 was convicted of first-degree felony murder, two counts of first-degree armed robbery, and multiple weapons offenses, facing a sentence of 30 years to life for Jones’s death.

Did anyone in the Trenton community have contact with Rasheen Jones the week before July 23, 2013, or remember seeing him that night?