Khalil Lyons, 22, was fatally shot in the chest on July 13, 2018, on Park Street in Peekskill while helping a friend with a car. He lived in the Bronx and had been planning to return to his wife and their 2-year-old daughter to celebrate the child’s birthday. Emergency responders took Lyons to New York-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.

The Peekskill Police Department arrested 18-year-old Demetrius Bogan of Peekskill on July 27, 2018. In August, two more men were taken into custody: Sean Deleon of Shrub Oak and Yaro Gaddy Waller of Peekskill. An indictment charged Bogan and Deleon with shooting and killing Lyons, alleging Murder in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree; Waller was charged with hindering prosecution and tampering with physical evidence.

In October 2019 Bogan pleaded guilty to Manslaughter in the First Degree; sentencing was scheduled for the following month. The Westchester County District Attorney’s Office prosecuted the case. Did anyone in Peekskill or the Bronx know Khalil and have information about what happened that afternoon?