Antwine McAllister, a 23-year-old Black father of twin sons, was shot and killed on East Sixth Street in Plainfield on February 16, 2006. The fatal shooting occurred around 9:30 a.m., about two blocks from City Hall, and was reported as the city’s first homicide that year. McAllister worked at a local supermarket and had planned to attend Union County College that fall.

A makeshift memorial of flowers and candles marked the scene and the community was left unsettled while the case remained unsolved for weeks. Plainfield police used public appeals, including a highway information board, to solicit witnesses. In May 2006 authorities announced an arrest: 26-year-old Plainfield resident Shaun Wafi Long was charged with murder and unlawful possession of a weapon; he was already in custody on unrelated drug charges at the Somerset County Jail when charged in this case.

Did anyone in Plainfield at that time have information about McAllister’s movements that morning or about what happened on East Sixth Street?