Marie Faye was 35 and worked as a nurse. On the evening of March 21, 2018, she was shot once inside her Ogden Avenue apartment in the Bronx. Police arrived about 10:30 p.m. and found her wounded in the presence of her boyfriend, 42-year-old Alain Samba. Faye was taken to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, where she died of her injuries.

Samba, an off-duty Rikers Island correction officer at the time, was taken into custody at the scene and told investigators the shooting was an accident, saying his gun discharged while he was cleaning it. The building superintendent described Faye as a fantastic person whose nursing career was taking off and said she always wore a smile.

After an investigation Samba was initially charged with criminally negligent homicide; a grand jury later indicted him on second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, with prosecutors saying his firearm training made his handling reckless. Anyone with information about Marie Faye or the events that night is asked to come forward.