On the evening of June 30, 2017, 19-year-old Tairiq Matthews was fatally shot in Staten Island. At about 6:30 p.m. Matthews was standing in front of a deli at the corner of Vanderbilt Avenue and Hamilton Street in the Stapleton neighborhood when a man who had been inside a nearby nail salon stepped out and fired a single shot to the head. The shooter fled the scene immediately and Matthews, a resident of West Brighton, was pronounced dead.

Motive has not been established publicly and there have been no publicly announced arrests or identifications of suspects. The family and the Stapleton community continue to live with the unresolved loss.

If anyone was in the area that evening or has information about the shooting, please come forward to help bring answers.