In the early morning hours of a summer Saturday in the Bronx, Forest Byrd, 34, was fatally shot at Eastchester Playground on Burke Avenue. The shooting occurred on August 1, 2020, at about 1:35 a.m.; police found Byrd with gunshot wounds to his torso and left arm after a 911 call. He was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi and pronounced dead at the hospital.

Byrd, a Bronx resident and aspiring artist who had been released from prison in January 2020, was remembered by acquaintances as a good dude. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the NYPD Crime Stoppers hotline; tips will be kept confidential.

Did anyone in the Bronx area that night see or hear anything at Eastchester Playground that could help investigators?