On May 17, 2021, a backyard barbecue in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, turned deadly when a verbal dispute escalated into gunfire that killed 31-year-old Miles Bobbsemple. Bobbsemple intervened and was shot in the chest; he later died at Kings County Hospital. Another man was shot in both legs and grazed on the shoulder and survived. Phillips fled the scene.

On October 4, 2021, a detective with the NYPD Fugitive Apprehension Task Force arrested Kevin Phillips in East Flatbush. He was indicted and arraigned on charges including second-degree murder, second-degree attempted murder, and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and was ordered held without bail. That evening, at a vigil for Bobbsemple, two gunmen in a white sedan opened fire on mourners, killing 32-year-old Shalimar Birkett, a friend of Bobbsemple’s.

If anyone attended the barbecue or the vigil and has information about either shooting, please share what is known.