On the night of June 9, 2018, Miguel Aviles, 37, was shot and killed in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx. Gunfire erupted in the courtyard of an apartment building on East 183rd Street during what witnesses said was a memorial service. Police found Aviles with multiple gunshot wounds to his torso and a 25-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to her leg; both were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where Aviles was pronounced dead and the woman was listed in stable condition.

The NYPD secured the scene and the crime scene unit processed evidence in the courtyard. The investigation remained open for an extended period with no immediate arrests and police appealed to the public for information. In September 2020, a Bronx resident named Jose J. Aviles was arrested in Jacksonville, Illinois, on a New York warrant for second-degree murder and was extradited to New York to face charges.

Did anyone in the Belmont area attend that memorial service or see anything in the courtyard that evening?