Malik Campbell was 23 when he was shot in the head and killed on the afternoon of November 3, 2017. The shooting occurred after an argument outside a building in the Jacob Riis Houses complex in the East Village. Witnesses reported hearing three gunshots and seeing Campbell fall to the ground; he was taken to a nearby hospital and died of his injuries.

Within a week authorities arrested an 18-year-old resident of the Smith Houses, identified in charging documents as Rashawn Taylor, and charged him with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. Police did not immediately announce a definitive motive, though there was speculation the shooting related to rivalries between young men from different public housing developments along the East River.

Campbell’s family, including the grandmother who helped raise him and his twin brother, described him as polite and caring; he was on probation at the time for a low-level drug offense. Does anyone have information about Malik’s life in the Riis or Smith Houses or about rivalry-related violence along the East River?