Alonzo Garaycochea was a 25-year-old father of two who moved to Albany from Washington, D.C., to be near his young son and daughter. Known as Zoe Rage when making music and working at a local McDonald’s while hoping to attend culinary school, Garaycochea was killed in the city’s first homicide of 2017.

In the early morning hours of February 12, 2017, a 911 call reported a shooting at a basement apartment on Clinton Avenue. Officers found Garaycochea with a single gunshot wound to the torso; he died after being taken to Albany Medical Center Hospital. Police determined the shooting was not random and believed Garaycochea knew his killer. The dispute began with text messages between a man named Justin McGraw and Garaycochea’s girlfriend. McGraw arrived on a party bus with others; witnesses described an argument and a physical altercation during which McGraw allegedly pointed a handgun. As the group left, a single shot from a .22-caliber handgun was fired.

Investigators charged 31-year-old Waverly Pleasant, a parolee who had been part of the group; Pleasant was arrested in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in April 2017 and faced second-degree murder and weapons charges.

Did anyone who knew Alonzo or who was in that Clinton Avenue neighborhood that night see or hear anything that could still help clarify what happened?