Menkie Woodard-Collins, 24, a Black man, was shot dead in Harlem in the early hours of September 13, 2021. Police responding about 12:35 a.m. found him on West 139th Street near the Savoy Park apartment complex with a gunshot wound to the head; he was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem and did not survive. Eyewitnesses reported a sudden burst of gunfire after an argument on the block, and residents said multiple shots rang out before sirens arrived.

Investigators initially described a dispute involving two men with at least one person firing before fleeing. In early October a 23-year-old, Antonio Armstrong, was publicly identified as someone police wanted to question in connection with two Harlem shootings, including the West 139th Street attack, but he was later found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound; no arrest or charge in Woodard-Collins’ killing was reported before that. Avenues for Justice remembered Woodard-Collins as bright, witty, and ambitious. Does anyone who was on West 139th Street that night or who knew Menkie have information to share?