In the early morning hours of a Sunday in March 2017, violence shattered the quiet of a Newark, New Jersey street, leaving a family and community to mourn a life cut short. Tyrone Frazier, a 41-year-old man from Newark, was gunned down on the 600 block of Irvine Turner Boulevard. The shooting occurred on March 26, 2017, a day that would become marked by a series of unrelated shootings in the city.
Authorities were called to the scene, and Frazier was pronounced dead shortly before 5 a.m.
His death was one of several violent incidents that weekend, which saw a total of three separate shootings in New Jersey's largest city, resulting in one fatality and four injuries. However, law enforcement officials stated they did not believe the shootings were connected.
In the wake of the fatal shooting, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office's Major Crimes Task Force launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Frazier's death. The motive for the shooting remained under investigation in the days following the incident. At the time of the initial reports, no arrests had been made in connection with the homicide.
