On the evening of May 25, 2022, in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, a mother returning from her job as a healthcare worker found her 22-year-old son, Tristan Templeman, dead behind the door of their second-floor Montauk Avenue apartment. He had sustained a fatal gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene after emergency medical services arrived.

The New York Police Department opened a homicide investigation. As of the initial reports, no arrests had been announced, no suspects were publicly identified, and no motive had been released. The circumstances surrounding how Tristan came to be shot remain under investigation.

If anyone in East New York that night saw something suspicious or has information about Tristan’s death, please come forward to the NYPD.