On an early Sunday morning in August 2020 in Wyandanch, New York, 26-year-old Mark Elijah Birthwright Jr., known as Nuni and Slimm Bank$, was shot and killed after leaving a house party on Patton Avenue. After Birthwright picked up the money, he and Brown were confronted by two armed men. A struggle with one of the men, later identified as Basheer Vinson of Brooklyn, knocked a purple baseball cap to the ground. Vinson fired a single shot into Birthwright’s chest; Brown was also shot in the side and survived with non-life-threatening injuries. Birthwright was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators recovered the purple cap and a spent 9mm cartridge casing; DNA from the hat and a partial profile from the casing were matched to Basheer Vinson. Vinson was arrested and charged on October 4, 2022; later court proceedings resulted in a conviction and a lengthy sentence. Does anyone have information about Birthwright’s life or the party that night that could add context to what happened?