Jefferson Exantus, 22, was shot in the face and head inside the Brooklyn Asylum nightclub on Flushing Avenue in Bushwick in the early morning of Sunday, March 19, 2017. The shooting occurred about 5:20 a.m.; emergency responders took Exantus to Woodhull Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Police say an argument between Exantus and another man preceded the shooting. Detectives later identified a person of interest and released a photograph of a man in his twenties asking the public for help, but no arrest was announced in the immediate aftermath. As of the last reports from 2017 the case remained unsolved and no public identification of a suspect or conviction has been reported.

Anyone who was at the Brooklyn Asylum that morning or who recognizes the person in the released photograph is asked to come forward with information.