happened in this busy shopping plaza in the morning morning. and oddly enough no one heard the gun shot. lt. chomnan loth, newark police department it is a surprise to us too it is busy but as you could see it s a busy street so it could be loud but we did not get a report of a gunshot fired. a man in his late 20 s who has yet to be identified was found dead in a newark shopping center saturday morning. employees say a customer walked by and saw the victim slumped over the steering wheel.jimmy lee, shopping plaza employee his engine was running and the windshield wipers were on. the victim was shot at least once in the head while sitting in the driver s seat of this dark grey bmw. the first homicide of the year was called into police at half past noon.but plaza employees say they think it happened hours before.lt. chomnan loth, newark police department we re still looking at videos and witnesses but we do have some leads. newark police aren t releasing any surveillence video