On the afternoon of March 23, 2021, gunfire erupted outside the Woodside Houses in Queens. Twenty-nine-year-old Elliot Clairborne was found on the pavement with multiple gunshot wounds to his lower back, legs, and arms. He was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where he died of his injuries.

Investigators tied the killing to an ongoing gang rivalry in the neighborhood. Clairborne was known to law enforcement and had a prior 2009 conviction for gun possession. Police say the same feud had recently produced another tragedy when Gudelia Vallinas, a 37-year-old mother of two, was killed by a stray bullet a block away.

In December 2023 the NYPD arrested 33-year-old Deyrod Blake and charged him with murder and gun possession in connection with Clairborne’s death; the case is pending. Does anyone in the Queens area have information about the feud or the events that led to this shooting?