A celebration of life and an anti-gun violence event in Brooklyn’s Scarangella Park on the night of August 20–21, 2016 ended in murder. Around 1:30 a.m., 30-year-old Daquan Spencer was at the gathering after earlier marking his son’s third birthday when a man approached him and opened fire. Spencer was struck repeatedly and evacuated to Coney Island Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Witnesses later identified the shooter as a man who had been arguing with others at the event before he targeted Spencer. The assailant fired dozens of rounds, and Spencer was hit in the head, neck, back, chest, stomach, legs and buttocks; he was still alive briefly and tried to crawl away. The shooter left the scene in a waiting vehicle.

If anyone attended that event or has information about what led to this shooting, please share what is known.