On December 7, 2019, 18-year-old Christon Jarrett was shot in a second-floor apartment in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, when a handgun being handled by his friend, 18-year-old Moustapha Diop, discharged. Jarrett was struck in the abdomen and rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he survived for 29 days but suffered a punctured intestine, paralysis, and had part of his colon removed. He told his grandmother from his hospital bed that his friend shot him and left him to die. Jarrett, of Jamaican descent, had been planning to earn his high school equivalency diploma and hoped to own a sneaker store.

Diop was arrested on December 13, 2019, and initially charged with assault, reckless endangerment, and criminal possession of a firearm. After Jarrett’s death on January 5, 2020, the case was classified as a homicide; Diop was released on $100,000 bail, a decision that devastated Jarrett’s family. If anyone knew Christon, his activities that night, or has information about the shooting, please come forward.