On June 18, 2022, at about 4:30 a.m., 27-year-old Atiba Proverbs was ambushed and shot multiple times inside the Casablanca grocery store on Main Street in Poughkeepsie, New York. Proverbs was rushed to MidHudson Regional Hospital but died of his injuries.

Surveillance footage showed a man later identified as 31-year-old Carlton Belton entering the store, shooting Proverbs repeatedly, and then leaving. Belton was later treated at a local hospital for a gunshot wound to his abdomen sustained during the encounter; a separate 40-year-old man was treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his leg. Belton was charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon.

If anyone witnessed the early-morning shooting at the Casablanca grocery or has information about the events that morning, please share what you know.