Keith Holden, known in New York’s reggae dancehall scene as dancing Keith, was 54 and a longtime Harlem salon employee when he was shot during an early-morning Bronx gathering. Around 4:52 a.m. on July 30, 2021, police responded to a 911 call at 1326 E. Gun Hill Road and found Holden lying outside with a single gunshot wound to his face; a family member said his body had been dragged outside after the shooting. He was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi in critical condition and died nine days later, on August 9, 2021. His death was ruled a homicide and the NYPD opened an investigation.

Detectives identified 40-year-old Jabal Gordon of Middletown, New York, as a suspect and located him at a Nyack motel on October 6, 2021; police said Gordon confessed, telling investigators he had been agitated after a bad day and provoked when Holden made a racket. Gordon was charged with murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon. Holden’s family held a funeral and a posthumous birthday party, and he was buried in Linden, New Jersey, beside his mother and sister.

Did anyone who knew Keith or who was at the July 30 gathering see what happened that night?