On the afternoon of December 14, 2020, Conrad Waterton, 22, was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head just after 2:30 p.m. in front of a building on Columbia Street in the Red Hook Houses, where he lived. He was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and pronounced dead.

Detectives from the 76th Precinct and NYPD PSA 1 investigated the shooting. No immediate arrest was made and the search for a suspect continued into the following year.

In May 2021 police arrested 31-year-old Tyquan Walden, a Bedford-Stuyvesant resident, after encountering his illegally parked car a few blocks from the shooting. Running his license produced his name as a person of interest; he was taken into custody and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.

If anyone knew Conrad, was in Red Hook that afternoon, or has information about the shooting or Walden’s movements, please share what you know.