Shadina Smith Hall, 29, was killed on a Saturday afternoon in January 2021 in her Harlem neighborhood. Distressed, she returned home and told her 26-year-old fiancé; the couple confronted the man in their building’s first-floor hallway, and the encounter escalated when the man produced a gun and opened fire.

Shadina was struck multiple times in the chest and was found unconscious; she was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Her fiancé was also shot in the torso and left arm but survived. Detectives spent months seeking the gunman and believed he may have fled to West Africa. In October 2021, a 19-year-old named Moussa Cisse was arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder, and weapons offenses in connection with the shooting.

While awaiting trial on the Manhattan charges, Cisse was involved in violent incidents at Rikers Island and received a ten-year sentence for those offenses to run concurrently with any sentence in the Manhattan case.

If anyone knew Shadina or has information about the January 2021 shooting, please share what you know.