On September 28, 2020, 25-year-old Jaylen Flowers, a Black man who lived in Clinton Hill, was shot in the courtyard of the Howard Houses on Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brownsville and later died at Brookdale Hospital. Police arrived shortly before 2:25 p.m. and found him with two gunshot wounds to the torso; he was pronounced dead after being rushed to the hospital.

Flowers’s killing was the fourth fatal shooting at the Howard Houses since June 2020, and the development had been described as experiencing gang-related activity. Some observers suggested he might have been an unintended victim in a dispute, but no definitive evidence supporting that theory has been reported. Surveillance footage and possible witnesses exist, yet no arrests have been announced and the investigation remains unsolved. A memorial was placed at the Howard Houses after his death.

Does anyone with information about what happened that afternoon or who was in the Howard Houses courtyard on September 28, 2020, have details to share?