Shaqwanda Staley was 29 when she was fatally shot in Brooklyn on July 12, 2017. She was in the courtyard of the Stuyvesant Garden Houses with a group of people just after 9 p.m. when gunfire erupted. Staley was struck in the back and later pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital; another woman, 21-year-old Chynna Battle, was also killed.

Investigators concluded neither Staley nor Battle were the intended targets. Witnesses said multiple men entered the courtyard shortly before the shooting, and prosecutors later said the shooters fired about 10 rounds into the crowd, apparently aiming in retaliation for a previous incident and missing their intended target.

Two men arrested in October 2017 in South Carolina, Anthony Alexander (then 19) and Nazir Saunders (then 22), were charged in the killings. In May 2019 both were convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon and in June 2019 were sentenced to 50 years to life. Does anyone have information about Shaqwanda’s life in the Stuyvesant Garden Houses or witnessed the courtyard that night?