On the evening of August 31, 2021, gunfire erupted in the courtyard of the James Monroe Houses on Taylor Avenue in the Bronx. Price Tunstall, 24, and his 22-year-old brother Malik Tunstall were both found with gunshot wounds to the head and taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi. Price was pronounced dead at the hospital; Malik was critically wounded.

Investigators focused on Kai Johnson, a member of a local gang called the Stevenson Commons Crew, alleging the shootings were tied to the gang’s violent activity. Johnson had been connected to an earlier April 2021 shooting in the same area. In April 2022 he was indicted on federal charges including racketeering conspiracy and murder in aid of racketeering; he later pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and related violent offenses and was sentenced to 40 years and five years of supervised release in September 2023. Price’s family spoke in court about their loss.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see or hear anything on the evening of August 31, 2021?