On the evening of November 4, 2016, police responded to reports of shots fired in an alley near Levin Road and Alley 16 in the Brooklyn Park neighborhood of Maryland and found 21-year-old Trayvon Dashawn Briscoe of Brooklyn suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body. Emergency personnel pronounced Briscoe dead at the scene; an autopsy confirmed death by multiple gunshot wounds.

Investigators focused on a neighbor, 22-year-old Nikko Diamonte Talley. On November 16, 2016, police executed search warrants in the Brooklyn area, located Talley in Glen Burnie, and took him into custody. He was charged with first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, and use of a firearm in a felony crime of violence, and was held without bond.

Talley maintained he was present but not the shooter. A court later suppressed statements he made to police during an interrogation. His case went to a jury trial beginning January 22, 2018; on January 29, 2018 the jury acquitted him of all charges. Did anyone in Brooklyn Park see or hear anything that night that could help explain who fired the shots?