Jabeon Bivins was 24 when he was shot dead on the evening of August 15, 2022, in a courtyard at the Redfern Houses in Far Rockaway, Queens. A former standout point guard at Baldwin High School, he was remembered by coaches and a former Hempstead mayor as a gifted, hardworking player, and by an uncle as a quiet, talented young man who had been trying to work things out. The night before he died he called his uncle’s children to tell them he loved them.

According to the NYPD, Bivins was with friends at about 6:20 p.m. when two men entered the public walkway, produced handguns and fired 21 shots as people scattered. A bullet struck Bivins in the back of the head as he fled across Redfern Avenue; he collapsed and was pronounced dead at the scene. Surveillance video released by police shows two gunmen, one in a gray hooded sweatshirt and one in a red hooded sweatshirt, shooting before entering a nearby building.

Does anyone who knew Jabeon or who was in the area that evening have information that could shed light on what happened?