On the evening of May 4, 2018, 39-year-old Laquan Surles of Brooklyn was shot multiple times in the torso at Third Avenue and State Street in Boerum Hill. He was taken to Brooklyn Hospital and pronounced dead from his injuries.

The investigation identified 48-year-old Robert Flippen, also from Boerum Hill, as the suspect. Authorities say the shooting arose from a dispute over a woman; Flippen was the woman’s ex-boyfriend and Surles her current partner. Flippen was arrested on May 5, 2018, charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, and reportedly confessed, directing detectives to where he had dismantled and discarded the firearm.

Flippen was indicted on second-degree murder and, after a jury trial on January 8, 2020, was convicted of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and later sentenced. Does anyone have information about Surles’s life in Boerum Hill or witnessed the May 4, 2018 shooting?