On the evening of October 26, 2021, 18-year-old Marcel Arrington was found with a gunshot wound in front of a residence on Bayview Drive in Mastic-Beach. He was taken to Long Island Community Hospital in East Patchogue but was pronounced dead. Investigators say he had gone to Bayview Park, near his home, to meet someone and that the shooting appears to have been an intentional act.

Marcel was a recent William Floyd High School graduate who played basketball and soccer and was working in masonry. He had been rebuilding a car he’d bought as a shell and was saving toward that project. Family members described him as driven and as his mother’s and father’s whole world.

Detectives reviewed social media leads, including an audio post in which a man claimed responsibility, but treated that claim cautiously. No arrests have been announced; the Suffolk County Police Department and Crime Stoppers have a $2,000 reward and the family has added $10,000 for information leading to an arrest. Anyone with information is asked to come forward.