Darius Burgess liked the San Francisco 49ers, the Orlando Magic, and the Boston Red Sox. He looked forward to watching two of his teams play and win this week.

The 28 year old Corbin Avenue resident was playing basketball in “Cosmo DiSanto” Memorial Playground on West Side Avenue at Broadway on June 8.

“He walked down the street to a store for a bottle of water. He came back and somebody shot him,” said his sister, Monique Burgess.

Burgess was shot in the back. He was pronounced dead at 2:15 p.m. at Jersey City Medical Center, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office.

Detectives are seeking a “person of interest” and there had been reports that Burgess was involved in an argument the day before. But his sister claims he was an innocent bystander.

“There was a fight on Sunday between two girls. One girl bumped into another girl and they started fighting,” Burgess said. “Some guy stopped the fight. One girl called her boyfriend and he came down and told the guy who stopped the fight, ‘I’ll be back.’ He came back on Monday and probably thought my brother was the guy but he looks nothing like him and he had nothing to do with this,” she continued.

Police are investigating. No arrests have been made. Autopsy results are pending.

Reverend T. L. Staggers, who is hosting an anti-violence march on Aug. 1, said the violence will continue unless people learn better ways to resolve conflicts and find common ground. “We have to disagree without being disagreeable,” he said. “People’s attitude about violence is ‘it’s not my problem.’ But it becomes everybody’s problem.”

For information on the march, call 201-993-0443.

If you have any information on the shooting, call 201-915-1345.