A fatal shooting in the East Village on January 9, 2020, left 41-year-old Richard Reed dead after an encounter that quickly escalated when police arrived. Officers responding to reports of a man gunned down encountered an armed suspect linked to Reed’s shooting; that individual was shot and killed by officers at the scene. The suspect’s identity has not been released and investigators have not publicly explained what led to Reed’s shooting or the events immediately before the police-involved shooting.

Separate from that case, a different Richard Reed, 35 and a resident of the Farragut Houses in Brooklyn, was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest in a lobby on January 7, 2024, and died after being taken to hospital. Police say a suspect fled the scene and no arrest had been reported in early coverage; the motive remained unclear.

Does anyone have information about either Richard Reed or the circumstances around these shootings that could help investigators?