Dontay Gordon was 17 when he was killed in a drive-by shooting on the evening of August 17, 2016, near the intersection of College Avenue and East 170th Street in the Claremont Village section of the Bronx. The shooting happened about 9:15 p.m.; a stolen livery cab, described as a late-model Lincoln Town Car, drove by and someone inside opened fire. Gordon was struck in the chest and taken to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A 21-year-old friend was shot in the stomach and taken to the same hospital in critical but stable condition.

Dontay was an aspiring rapper and dancer about to start his senior year at Renaissance High School. His father said he was well loved in the neighborhood and focused on his music. The family had already lost an older son to gun violence six years earlier just a block away. Investigators later identified the driver of the stolen car as Adrian Medina; he was arrested in 2019. As of the sentencing reported in August 2023, Medina had pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and received prison time, but the shooter who fired the fatal shots had not been apprehended.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see the Lincoln Town Car or the shooter on the night of August 17, 2016?