On the early morning of January 10, 2021, 24-year-old Shamel Pancho Harris was killed by gunfire while at an unauthorized party in an Airbnb on Montauk Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn. A shooter on the street fired multiple rounds through a kitchen window; Harris was standing in the kitchen and was struck several times. He was pronounced dead after emergency responders arrived.

Harris, a Black man from Bedford-Stuyvesant, was reported to have prior arrests and alleged ties to a street gang, but friends and family remembered him as joyful and energetic. No suspects were publicly identified and no immediate arrests were made; the motive remained unclear and the NYPD continued to investigate.

If anyone was at that gathering or saw activity on Montauk Avenue in the early hours of January 10, 2021, please share what was observed with investigators.