On the afternoon of Monday, September 27, 2021, 20-year-old Siam Neblett was shot and killed while walking his younger sister home in Orange, New Jersey. The attack occurred about 3 p.m. on the 400-block of Central Avenue, near a fire station, a time and place when students were coming home from school. An unidentified assailant reportedly approached and fired multiple shots, striking Neblett in the head. Emergency responders transported him to University Hospital in Newark, where he was pronounced dead at 5:31 p.m.

Known to family as Bit-Bit, Neblett was a new father to a two-month-old daughter and worked at FedEx. Raised by his grandmother, he loved basketball and video games but had been focused on providing for his child. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and the Orange Police Department are investigating; no arrests have been announced and the investigation remains active.

If anyone saw the shooting or has information about who approached Siam that afternoon, please come forward to investigators.