On the night of Sunday, December 29, 2019, 19-year-old Haneef Brockington of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was found in a gas station parking lot on the 300 block of Morris Avenue suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 10:45 p.m.

The Union County Homicide Task Force, the Elizabeth Police Department and the Union County Sheriff’s Office investigated. Authorities later identified two suspects; on January 31, 2020, the Union County Prosecutor’s Office announced the arrests of 22-year-old George Thompson of Newark and a 17-year-old juvenile (name withheld because of age) on charges of murder and related weapons offenses.

If anyone witnessed the shooting that night or has information about Haneef’s movements before he arrived at the gas station, please come forward to help the investigation.