Amir Patterson was 16 when he was shot and killed in his Brooklyn public housing complex on October 27, 2020. Police were called about 10 p.m. to the Kingsborough Houses in Crown Heights and found Patterson on the first floor of one of the buildings with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to a nearby hospital and later pronounced dead.

His mother, Lasheena Patterson, said he was well cared for and not a gang member, and that he had fallen in with the wrong crowd and was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

If anyone has information about what happened that October evening or saw activity near the Kingsborough Houses, please come forward to assist the investigation.