On April 22, 2017, Reggie Nat White, a 37-year-old Black man from Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, was found fatally shot in Bayswater Park in Queens near Bay 32nd Street. Police were alerted by the ShotSpotter gunfire-detection system and discovered White unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds to his head and body; emergency medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

Investigators recovered a cell phone near White’s body. The motive for his presence in Queens and the circumstances that led to his death were not clear in the initial investigation, and there were no immediate witnesses or publicly identified suspects. The killing was the second homicide in the 101st Precinct that year.

Anyone with information about Reggie Nat White, his movements in Queens that evening, or the cell phone recovered at the scene is asked to come forward.