Gerald Cummings, 38, was fatally shot in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on the evening of August 3, 2016, after going to help his 17-year-old son recover a stolen Don C Oakland Raiders leather and snakeskin baseball cap. The son had reportedly been robbed days earlier and spotted one of the teens wearing the distinctive cap near the basketball courts outside P.S. 6 on Snyder Avenue. Cummings retrieved the hat, and as he and his son walked away a 16-year-old with the group pulled a gun and fired three shots, striking Cummings in the back and the back of the head in front of his son. Cummings was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police arrested 16-year-old Adonis Barnett on August 18, 2016, charging him with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. Another 16-year-old, Romell Baptiste, was indicted on robbery charges tied to the initial theft of the cap. The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office called the killing a senseless, cold-blooded shooting of a family man walking away after retrieving his son’s stolen cap.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see the confrontation outside P.S. 6 that night or have information about the group involved?