A dispute in the Claremont section of the Bronx turned fatal on October 13, 2017, when 24-year-old Jaquan Smalls was shot and killed outside 1330 Webster Avenue. The confrontation began earlier that day inside the Butler Houses, where Smalls and another man, Kevin Pettiway, argued and Smalls physically assaulted Pettiway. Later that evening, around 10 p.m., the conflict resumed outside the same building and Pettiway was armed; Smalls suffered gunshot wounds to his head and chest and was taken to St.

Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Smalls lived about a half-mile from the scene. The investigation led to the arrest of 29-year-old Kevin Pettiway on November 9, 2017, and he was charged in connection with Smalls’s death.

Does anyone have information about Smalls’s life in the Butler Houses or about the events that led up to that October night?