A dispute over a clogged, overflowing toilet in a 14th-floor Morris Houses apartment in the Bronx turned deadly on the morning of March 26, 2022. Twenty-eight-year-old Keyan Francis, a Black man from East Harlem, was found unconscious with a gunshot wound to the chest after police responded to a 911 call around 10:45 a.m. He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital and pronounced dead.

Investigators say the argument involved Francis and his roommate, Christopher Machicote, and witnesses reported hearing the verbal altercation followed by a gunshot. Machicote, then on parole for an attempted robbery conviction, was arrested and charged with murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon and held without bail. Police also sought a second person described as a light-skinned woman; no further details about her role have been released. The apartment was reportedly used as a gathering spot for gang members.

If anyone knew Keyan, who frequented that apartment, or saw activity on the building’s 14th floor that morning, please share what was seen or heard.