Jahiem Smallwood was 23 when he was shot in front of his Red Hook Houses apartment on Bush Street in Brooklyn on the evening of July 19, 2016. He was taken to Methodist Hospital and died of his injuries the next day. A young son was reportedly with him, holding his hand during the shooting.

Smallwood had been released from a five-year incarceration two months earlier and that same day had visited the Miccio Center to meet with career coaches and enroll in a GED program. Friends and acquaintances described him as trying to build a more positive life and be there for his child.

The NYPD investigated the shooting as intentional and suggested it may have arisen from a dispute. In late October 2016, authorities arrested 24-year-old John Lawton, also from Red Hook, and charged him with murder and criminal possession of a firearm in connection with Smallwood’s death.

Did anyone in Red Hook or the Miccio Center know Jahiem or have information about the events that night?