A dispute that began at a baby shower in the Bronx escalated into fatal street violence on the night of February 12, 2022. Twenty-four-year-old Arnold Oliver of Peekskill was involved in an altercation near East 198th Street and Webster Avenue in Fordham Manor. In the chaos that followed Oliver was stabbed multiple times in the head and neck by an unidentified person and was also shot; Wayne Smith, Jamal’s 28-year-old brother, is said to have taken Oliver’s gun and shot him. Police arrived to find Wayne Smith still kicking Oliver as he lay on the ground.

Both Oliver and Jamal Smith were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where they were pronounced dead. Video surveillance reportedly captured the incident, and authorities arrested Wayne Smith at the scene; a second suspect, 26-year-old Nathaniel Sewell of Mount Vernon, was later arrested and faces related charges.

Does anyone have information about the events at that baby shower or the moments that led the conflict onto the street?