On the evening of January 16, 2018, 33-year-old Melvin Batties was fatally shot in the neck in the courtyard of the Sedgwick Houses on West 174th Street in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx. The single gunshot occurred just before 7:10 p.m.; he was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital but was pronounced dead from his injuries.

Batties was an aspiring musician from Brooklyn who often came to the Sedgwick Houses to film music videos and pursue his creative work. The New York Police Department opened a homicide investigation and, on February 12, 2018, identified a 34-year-old man named Carl Henley as a person of interest and asked the public for information about his whereabouts.

Does anyone who knew Melvin, or who was in the Sedgwick Houses that night, have information that could help the investigation?