An 11-year-old boy, Ayshawn Davis, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Troy, New York, on September 13, 2020. He was standing outside a home on Old Sixth Avenue with friends of his family when gunfire from a moving vehicle struck him; a single bullet proved fatal. The Troy Police Department led an intensive investigation with assistance from other agencies.

Eleven days after the shooting police arrested 20-year-old Jahquay E. Brown of Cohoes at his home and recovered a handgun believed to be the weapon. Brown was charged with second-degree murder; court documents said he did not act alone and identified another individual believed to have been the shooter, though that person was not charged. Brown’s defense maintained he was the vehicle’s driver and unaware his passenger intended to fire the weapon.

In June 2022 a jury acquitted Brown of second-degree murder but convicted him of second-degree manslaughter; in August 2022 a judge sentenced him to 5 to 15 years in state prison. Ayshawn’s mother, Latoya Alston, died in January 2022 at age 38, family members saying she struggled after her son’s death. Did anyone in the Troy area know Ayshawn or see activity on Old Sixth Avenue that night?