Thirty-three-year-old Tahaij Wells was killed after police shot him outside the Art All Night Trenton festival early on the morning of June 17, 2018. TRENTON - Police were justified in shooting a man who had opened fire on a crowd leaving an arts festival in 2018, an investigation by a New Jersey prosecutor has concluded Thirty-three-year-old Tahaij Wells was killed after police shot him outside the Art All Night Trenton festival early on the morning of June 17, 2018, after several fights had broken out and festivalgoers were asked to leave.
A report released by the Mercer County prosecutor’s office Thursday concluded that three officers who fired their weapons at Wells after seeing him fire several times into the crowd were justified in.