Raelynn Cameron, 17, was fatally shot on the evening of October 10, 2022, inside an apartment building on Eldert Lane in East New York. A recent graduate of the Brooklyn High School of the Performing Arts and a freshman at Medgar Evers College planning to study business and minor in dance, she was days away from her 18th birthday. Family and friends described her as bright, beautiful, talented, and involved in church and community activities.

On the night she died Raelynn was at a gathering with an adopted cousin and friends. Initial reports suggested the shooting was accidental, but a witness later said an individual at the party made unwanted sexual advances toward Raelynn; after she rejected him the witness said that person shot her in the chest. Video later showed two men carrying her from the apartment and leaving her in the lobby. She was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Police arrested 22-year-old Javone Duncan of Crown Heights on October 26, 2022, charging him with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. At trial the jury convicted Duncan of second-degree manslaughter and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon; a judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison on May 21, 2024. Does anyone have information about the gathering that night or about Raelynn’s final hours?