On the evening of Friday, April 15, 2022, 20-year-old Daquan Trantham of Bedford-Stuyvesant was fatally shot at St. Andrew’s Playground on Atlantic Avenue in Crown Heights. The shooting occurred at about 6:38 p.m.; officers from the 79th Precinct responding to a 911 report found Trantham with multiple gunshot wounds to his torso. He was taken to Interfaith Medical Center and was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Detectives said a man wearing green clothing fled the scene. In August 2022 police arrested 19-year-old Dinikue Grant, also from Bedford-Stuyvesant, charging him with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with Trantham’s death.

What information do readers in Crown Heights have about that evening or the people involved?