3 Men Sought In Connection To Edison Murder: Prosecutor

EDISON, NJ — Three men are wanted for questioning in connection to an early Saturday morning shooting that left one dead and another seriously injured in Edison, Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey said.

Nahshon Brown, 31, was killed outside of Akbar Restaurant in south Edison just before 2 a.m. Saturday morning, Carey said. Another man, a 40-year-old from Newark, was shot in the head; he is currently in stable condition at a nearby hospital.

The restaurant, located on Cortland Street in a shopping center just off of Route 1 south, was hosting a reggae event the night of the shooting, Carey said.

No arrests have been made; Carey said authorities are looking to speak to the three men, pictured above, in connection to the shooting. Anyone with information about the men's identities is asked to call Detective Loren Long of the Edison Police Department at (732) 248-7531, or Detective Michael Connelly of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (732) 745-3254.

"These shootings are tragic and upsetting, to me and to residents of our community. I am confident that Edison's well-trained Police Department, working in conjunction with the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, can and will bring to justice the person or persons responsible," Edison Mayor Thomas Lankey said on Saturday.

Tips can also be made anonymously by calling 1-800-939- 9600, online at www.middlesextips.com, or by text messaging 274637 (CRIMES) with the keyword: “midtip” followed by the tip information.