Anthony Ortega was 27 when he was fatally shot on the evening of August 28, 2020, at about 5:55 p.m. He had returned to the Morrisania neighborhood in the Bronx and was at the corner of East 174th Street and Longfellow Avenue when an argument among several men escalated to gunfire. Ortega was struck in the head; a nurse who witnessed the shooting attempted to help, but he was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital and pronounced dead. Another man was critically injured in the same incident.

Police later arrested 24-year-old Guillermo Bryan of Billingsley Terrace in the Bronx on September 9, 2020; he was charged with murder and manslaughter in connection with Ortega’s death. Ortega had been working as a forklift driver in Hunts Point and, his mother Maribel Mercado said, was trying to turn his life around. Few public details have been released about the argument that led to the shooting.

Did anyone who knew Anthony or who was in Morrisania that evening see what happened or have information to share with investigators?