O’Neal Mosley was 24 when he was shot near his home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, in the early hours of Saturday, March 10, 2018. Police found him at about 3:30 a.m. at the Louis Armstrong Houses on Clifton Place with gunshot wounds to his torso and leg; he was taken to a nearby hospital and later died.

Mosley had been an honor roll student at the Urban Assembly School for Music and Arts and worked at a Target in Downtown Brooklyn. Neighbors reported hearing gunshots that morning but were reluctant to go outside; his mother said he spoke to her and then collapsed. Some neighbors thought the shooting might have followed a dispute or a robbery, and his mother believed he had been carrying a large amount of money from a recent paycheck and tax refund.

The New York Police Department opened a homicide investigation but made no immediate arrests. Later court filings in a wrongful death lawsuit by Mosley’s mother state the assailants remained unknown and the criminal investigation was still pending as of 2022 and 2023.