On the evening of September 29, 2020, 36-year-old Roderick Smith was shot and killed in Brooklyn’s Cypress Hills neighborhood. The shooting happened at about 10:15 p.m. near Highland Park on Highland Boulevard, close to Sunnyside Avenue. Smith, a Black man who worked as a DJ and used a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van to transport entertainment equipment, was near his van when two men dressed in black approached and gunfire erupted.

Smith was struck in the head and left shoulder and was found facedown on the ground when police arrived. He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Investigators recovered ballistic evidence at the scene, but the two gunmen fled and no arrests have been announced. The NYPD is investigating and no motive has been made public.

Was anyone in the neighborhood that night able to see or hear something that could help identify the shooters?