In the late afternoon of a Sunday in September, 22-year-old Lester Jack was shot in the torso near the basketball courts of John Hancock Playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The shooting occurred around 4:00 p.m. at the corner of Hancock Street and Spencer Place and also wounded a 29-year-old man, who was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition with a gunshot to his backside.

Jack was rushed to Interfaith Medical Center but doctors were unable to save him. The death reverberated through the community; his mother worked at Brooklyn Borough Hall and then-Borough President Eric Adams issued a statement calling the loss a tragic result of gun violence. The NYPD investigated the shooting and made an arrest in late October in connection with the case.

If anyone was in or around John Hancock Playground that afternoon or has information about the events leading up to the shooting, please share what is known with investigators.