On February 18, 2022, a confrontation inside a 24th Street apartment in Watervliet, New York, left 41-year-old Shaun T. Koonce with four gunshot wounds. First responders found Koonce on the floor; an officer applied a tourniquet and he was taken to a hospital, where he died. Before he died, Koonce asked the officer to tell his children that he loved them.

Witnesses who knew both men identified a suspect and police arrested 48-year-old Reginald P. Goodman of Troy. Investigators recovered a 9mm handgun believed to be the weapon, reportedly stolen from South Carolina. Goodman was charged with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and held without bail pending trial.

At trial the defense argued Goodman acted in self-defense, saying Koonce forced his way into the apartment, demanded money and assaulted occupants. In February 2023 an Albany County jury acquitted Goodman of second-degree murder but convicted him of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon; his prior record exposed him to a possible sentence of up to 15 years for that conviction.