William Ortiz, 30, was fatally shot on the afternoon of Thursday, January 17, 2019, in the Lafayette Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He was found in a 13th-floor hallway with a gunshot wound to his torso and was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he died.

The killing compounded an earlier family tragedy: 19 months before William’s death his brother, Terrell Ortiz, had also been killed by gunfire. On the day William was shot he had gone to the building reportedly to discuss arrangements for Terrell’s tombstone with their mother.

The NYPD canvassed the scene and searched for witnesses, but no immediate arrests were announced and no motive or suspects were publicly identified in the days after the shooting. Does anyone have information about William, his movements that day, or witnesses who were at the Lafayette Houses?