On the night of April 14, 2016, Elliot Caldwell, a 23-year-old Black father, was shot in the back outside the Campos Plaza I houses on East 12th Street near Avenue C in Manhattan’s East Village. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital and pronounced dead after the shooting at about 10:45 p.m. Detectives on scene marked multiple spent bullet casings with white cups, and police described the shooter as a man in a red hoodie who fled immediately after the attack. The motive was not clear.

Caldwell’s family said he was a devoted father to a three-year-old son and that recent changes in his life had been positive. The next day the NYPD arrested 23-year-old Theodore Holloway, a resident of Campos Plaza I, and charged him with second-degree murder; reports noted Holloway had prior arrests. Friends and neighbors held a street memorial and remembered Caldwell as a good kid.

If anyone knew Elliot or saw what happened that night, please share information that could help investigators.