On the morning of November 3, 2017, 37-year-old Saleem Merukeb was shot after a street altercation on Allen Street near Delaware Avenue in Buffalo. The confrontation began around 1:30 a.m. in front of Frizzy’s, though the argument was reported as unrelated to the bar. Witnesses say the fight turned physical, and a man identified as 30-year-old Jeremy Wright left the scene, returned with a gun, and shot Merukeb multiple times while Merukeb was running away. Merukeb, a father of two, was taken to Buffalo General Hospital and pronounced dead.

His father described him as having an aggressive personality but said Merukeb had been trying to walk away from the fight and turn his life around. Surveillance from the city’s safe camera program was used in the investigation; Jeremy Wright was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, arraigned in Buffalo City Court and held without bail. In June 2018 Wright pleaded guilty to Murder in the Second Degree and received an indeterminate sentence of 20 years to life for the killing of Saleem Merukeb.

Has anyone in Buffalo seen or heard anything about that night on Allen Street that could add detail to what happened?