On April 29, 2021, 17-year-old Devonte Lewis was fatally shot outside the Urban Dove Charter School in Midwood during afternoon dismissal. Lewis, a first-year student at Urban Dove who had also taken a maintenance job with the New York City Housing Authority, was struck in the stomach and later died at Kings County Hospital.

Surveillance footage captured three people lying in wait. Authorities alleged the three—Malachi Simms, then 15; Quran Smith, 16; and Frantzy Alexandre, 20—were affiliated with the Folk No Love City gang and that Lewis was an alleged member of a rival crew, the Bloodhound Brims. Video reportedly showed Alexandre handing a firearm to Simms before Simms and Smith opened fire; the attackers then tried to flee in the victim’s car and on foot. A loaded .380 Taurus Spectrum pistol recovered when Quran Smith was arrested on May 19, 2021, was later forensically linked to casings at the scene.

The shooting was described as a gang-motivated ambush that intensified the conflict between the groups.

Did anyone who knew Devonte or who was in the Midwood area that afternoon see something that could help clarify what happened?