Cain Smalls, a 29-year-old Black man from Poughkeepsie, was shot outside Noah’s Ark, a neighborhood bar at 135 Mill Street, in the early hours of Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022. Officers arrived at about 3:56 a.m. and found Smalls with a serious gunshot wound to his torso. He was taken to Mid-Hudson Regional Hospital, where emergency surgery was performed, but he died later that morning.

The City of Poughkeepsie Police Department opened a homicide investigation and has asked the public for help identifying whoever fired the shots. No arrests have been announced, no suspects have been publicly identified, and the motive has not been released. Smalls’ family and friends remember him as loving and loyal and continue to grieve.

Does anyone have information about Cain Smalls or about the shooting outside Noah’s Ark on April 17, 2022?