On the evening of December 3, 2013, 21-year-old Dawud Hicks was shot in Plainfield, New Jersey. At about 9 p.m. shots were reported near Monroe Avenue and West 3rd Street; Hicks was found moments later on the 300 block of Manson Place with multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital around 9:30 p.m.

A lifelong Plainfield resident and Plainfield High School graduate, Hicks was a former state wrestling and football champion studying to be a Fire Science HVC technician and active at the Islamic Dawah Center. His death devastated his parents, four sisters, and a wide circle of relatives and friends.

The investigation led authorities to Lavarr Nowell. DNA evidence tied Nowell to the crime: a glove concealing a handgun yielded a DNA profile matching Nowell, and a saliva swab near shell casings also matched. Nowell was indicted on first-degree murder and related weapons charges and was later convicted in connection with Hicks’s death. The motive has not been reported.

Did anyone who knew Dawud or who was in that neighborhood that night see or hear anything that could shed more light on what happened?