Theodore Smith, 29, was found inside his apartment at the Sumner Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on November 12, 2018, after sustaining two gunshot wounds to the head. His girlfriend discovered him and emergency responders took him to Woodhull Medical Center around 7:30 p.m., where he later died. Initial reports say an argument occurred in the apartment shortly before the shooting.

No arrest was reported for several months. In June 2019 a 19-year-old resident of the same housing complex, Lamique Haynie, was taken into custody after an unrelated scuffle with a taxi driver; during booking police realized he was wanted in Smith’s slaying. Haynie was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court and held without bail. Reports say surveillance video allegedly shows Haynie just before and after the shooting and witnesses identified him; in July 2019 Haynie pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

Did anyone in Bedford-Stuyvesant know Smith or see him around the Sumner Houses in the days before November 12, 2018?