On February 13, 2016, 24-year-old Javane Laurent was shot outside his mother’s home on East 93rd Street in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Laurent retrieved a machete from his room and escorted Williams outside, where Williams produced a handgun and shot Laurent multiple times in the back.

Laurent was taken to Brookdale Hospital and pronounced dead. The NYPD identified and arrested Williams; he was charged in connection with Laurent’s death and later tried. On October 3, 2017, a Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice sentenced Williams to 20 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision after convictions for first-degree manslaughter and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

If anyone witnessed the confrontation outside the house that evening or has information about what led up to the shooting, please share what is known.