On a summer afternoon in Brooklyn, a dispute outside a bike and scooter shop turned deadly for 23-year-old Nicholas Isaac. The shooting happened July 18, 2020, in front of a shop on Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights after a verbal argument between Isaac and another man escalated. Isaac, who lived in Clinton Hill, was shot multiple times in the legs and torso. He ran into the shop to seek cover but the assailant followed and continued firing as Isaac tried to flee. Emergency services took him to Kings County Hospital, where he had surgery but later died.

The NYPD initially described the suspect as about 6 feet 0 inches tall, last seen wearing a black baseball cap, black shirt, black pants and black shoes, and carrying a blue backpack; the suspect fled on a black scooter. In August 2023 a man identified as 64-year-old Robert Bryson was arrested in Cleveland and extradited to Brooklyn; in September 2023 he was arraigned on an indictment charging second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and ordered held without bail.

Nicholas was remembered by family and friends as a creative, community-minded person involved in arts programs. Does anyone have information about the shooting or Nicholas’s life in Crown Heights that could help fill gaps in the timeline?