On the afternoon of April 30, 2018, 37-year-old Tasheen Tigre Williams was fatally shot outside his home on Union Avenue in Mount Vernon, New York. The shooting happened as a nearby school was dismissing students, heightening the shock in the neighborhood. Williams was Black / African American.

Investigators later tied the killing to gang-related retaliation. Authorities identified James Bazemore, known as TJ, as the person who stalked and then shot Williams, and accused Jared El Mujaahid of supplying the firearm. Both men were alleged members of a gang called Big Paper, which prosecutors say was involved in narcotics distribution and other criminal activity in the Mount Vernon area; prosecutors contend Williams was targeted as a rival.

In May 2022 a federal indictment was unsealed charging Bazemore with murder in aid of racketeering and charging Mujaahid with racketeering conspiracy and aiding and abetting the assault by providing the murder weapon. Has anyone in Mount Vernon been willing to speak about Big Paper or about Tasheen Williams in the years before the indictment?