On May 28, 2022, at about 11:25 p.m., 53-year-old Alfred Bent was standing in front of a brownstone on Decatur Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, when a dispute escalated and he was shot in the head. Officers from the 81st Precinct found him unconscious and unresponsive; he was taken to Kings County Hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Detectives developed a lead from a tip over the following months that linked 30-year-old Gabriel Hoyle, a Reid Avenue resident, to the homicide. Hoyle was arrested on an unrelated domestic incident on October 28, 2022, and the next day he was charged with murder and weapons possession in connection with Bent’s death. At his arraignment on October 30, Hoyle was ordered held without bail. The motive beyond an argument has not been disclosed.

If anyone witnessed the shooting on Decatur Street that night or has information about what sparked the argument between Bent and Hoyle, please share what you know.