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On the evening of August 31, 2016, Marcus Corey Ellis, a 25-year-old Black male from Plainfield, New Jersey, was fatally shot. The incident occurred at approximately 11 p.m. on the 700 block of Hillside Avenue in what would become the eighth homicide in the city that year. Ellis was discovered with gunshot wounds alongside another 26-year-old man. Both were transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where Ellis was pronounced dead around 11:45 p.m. A third man, aged ...Read More
Victim Details

Marcus Ellis

Male

Black / African American

Plainfield

NJ

2016-08-31

25

Marcus

Ellis

11/18/2025