Jerome Spence, 26, was shot dead on Easter Sunday after stepping outside his Sterling Street home in Brooklyn. According to accounts, he had just told his five-year-old daughter she was beautiful, then was struck multiple times in the face, neck and chest. He managed to stumble into a nearby apartment building and collapsed on a second-floor landing. Officers found him unconscious around 10:20 p.m.; he was taken to Kings County Hospital and died of his wounds.

Family members described Spence as a construction worker who kept to himself and was not involved in altercations or gang activity; they said they believe he was not the intended target. Investigators subsequently tied the killing to a turf conflict involving the street gang called the Martense Beverly Bosses. Within weeks a 16-year-old, Kobe Franklyn, was arrested and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon; two months later an 18-year-old, Harold Phillips, was also arrested and charged, with prosecutors alleging Phillips was the shooter and Franklyn transported the gun.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see activity on Sterling Street that night or recognize individuals connected to the gang conflict?