In the early morning hours of June 20, 2020, a gathering at a residence on Second Street in Englewood, New Jersey, turned deadly. Douglas Perry, a 43-year-old Black/African American male from Newark, was attending the party when gunfire erupted around 1:11 a.m. near the intersection of Second and Fourth Streets. When police responded to multiple 911 calls reporting shots fired, they discovered a chaotic scene with numerous people in the street. Perry and another man, 29-year-old Alex Glover of Englewood, were found lying in the roadway with multiple gunshot wounds.
Both men were rushed to local hospitals. Glover survived his injuries, but Perry was pronounced dead at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center. The area was littered with shell casings, and several vehicles, along with a nearby home, had been struck by bullets.
The initial investigation by the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office and Englewood police was hampered by a lack of cooperation from the many witnesses at the scene. Despite the initial silence, detectives from the Major Crimes Unit launched an intensive investigation to piece together the events that led to the fatal ambush.
The investigation identified three suspects in the shooting. Authorities determined that Jamal 'Mally' Robinson, a 44-year-old from Englewood with a lengthy criminal history, had orchestrated the planned attack. He allegedly recruited two men from Baltimore, Maryland: 23-year-old Dejuan Stokes and 22-year-old Dwayne Redd, Jr. to carry out the shooting. Investigators also allege that as Perry lay dying, Robinson went through his pockets and robbed him. In the weeks following the homicide, law enforcement made their arrests. A SWAT team captured Robinson in Englewood. Stokes was arrested in Baltimore, where authorities recovered a. 40-caliber Glock pistol that ballistics testing matched to shell casings found at the crime scene. Redd, the final suspect, was apprehended in Baltimore by the U.S. Marshals. All three men were charged with murder, and Robinson also faced a robbery charge.
