On June 19, 2020, 27-year-old Hassan Brown was fatally shot in a drive-by while sitting in a parked gray Nissan on Stanley Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn. A blue 4-door sedan, also described as a Mercedes Benz, pulled up beside them and someone in the passenger seat opened fire. Brown was struck in the torso, arms, legs, and head; a 17-year-old companion was hit in the right thigh. Brown staggered into a nearby deli and collapsed; emergency crews performed CPR and transported both victims to Brookdale Hospital, where Brown was pronounced dead and the teenager was listed in stable condition.

Investigators suggested a possible retaliatory motive. Brown had been identified as a person-of-interest in the May 2020 murder of local rapper KJ Balla. Federal investigators linked 21-year-old Anthony Williams to Brown’s killing and surveillance footage reportedly showed Williams driving the blue sedan used in the shooting; the day after, that vehicle was found burnt out near JFK airport. Williams was not charged in Brown’s homicide in the materials reviewed; he faced unrelated charges of being a felon in possession of ammunition from a separate non-fatal shooting two days earlier. Some reports named an associate, Anthony Walker, as the driver who delivered a gunman to the scene. The NYPD sought public help identifying the vehicle and occupants.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who remember seeing that blue sedan on Stanley Avenue that afternoon?