On May 16, 2021, at about 12:31 a.m., 34-year-old Eric Velasquez was shot in the abdomen in front of a building on East 184th Street in the Fordham Heights neighborhood of the Bronx while visiting his mother. He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital and died of his injuries. Velasquez had moved to Yonkers with his wife and children and, according to his family, was not involved in criminal activity.

Authorities describe the shooting as indiscriminate gunfire into a crowd tied to an alleged gang rivalry. Police say 16-year-old Alberto Ramirez, identified as a member of the Young Gunnaz, opened fire in an area controlled by a rival group; Velasquez was an innocent bystander. Ramirez turned himself in to the 46th Precinct and was arrested on June 7, 2021, and charged with murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a firearm. Reports note Ramirez had prior weapons-related arrests that were handled in Family Court and that a judge had lowered bail on a prior weapons charge months before this shooting.

Did anyone in the Fordham Heights area that night see or hear anything that could help clarify what happened?