Malcolm Amede was 18 when he was fatally shot near the corner of Woodruff Avenue and Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon, August 19, 2020. Of Trinidadian descent, he had celebrated the birth of his son about two weeks earlier. Amede was walking near Prospect Park around 3:30 p.m., reportedly on his way to a vigil for another recent shooting victim, when someone in a parked gray BMW opened fire. He was struck in the chest and arms and later died at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County.

A 33-year-old man, Sam Metcalfe, who was walking with his wife to a nearby store, was also hit and suffered a stomach wound; he was taken to the same hospital and listed in stable condition. The shooting was the third killing within a two-block radius in less than a week, which had already shaken the neighborhood. In July 2021 the New York Police Department announced an arrest: a 20-year-old taken into custody and charged with murder, two counts of assault, and four counts of criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the shooting.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see the gray BMW or events around Woodruff and Ocean that afternoon?