On the evening of April 28, 2017, 26-year-old Tyquan Gumbs was playing basketball with friends on Fayette Street in Binghamton, New York, when a man approached, called his name, and opened fire. Gumbs was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators focused on a motive of gang-related retaliation tied to the shooting death of Brandon Hernandez weeks earlier. Authorities identified 21-year-old Jabari Ashe of Brooklyn as the prime suspect; he was arrested in Brooklyn more than two weeks after the killing and indicted in May 2017 on second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon.

At trial in Broome County Court prosecutors said the killing was a planned assassination and that Ashe had come to Binghamton to avenge a friend. In March 2018 a jury found Jabari Ashe guilty of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon. At sentencing in June 2018 the judge imposed 25 years to life; family testimony described the emotional toll of the loss and noted actions toward Gumbs’ body after the shooting.

If anyone knew Tyquan, was at the basketball court that night, or has information about the events leading up to the shooting, please come forward.