In the early hours of May 29, 2021, 22-year-old Hakeem Norman was shot in the neck inside a Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment where he lived on Pacific Street. Norman had allowed 18-year-old Reynaldo Lewis to move in about two months earlier.

Norman was taken to Interfaith Medical Center and died of his wounds two days later on May 31, 2021. A search for Lewis followed; he turned himself in and was arrested on June 21, 2021 and charged with manslaughter. At arraignment, Lewis’s attorney described the shooting as a tragic accident, saying Lewis thought the weapon was a BB gun and needed therapy rather than jail. Norman’s mother, Natalie Townsend, disputed that account, saying the gun had reportedly jammed twice before the fatal shot.

Does anyone have information about what happened that night or knew either man?