On the night of November 27, 2015, 47-year-old Dupree Powerful Dunbar and his 25-year-old son Dupris Bango Moore were found dead in the 14th-floor hallway of the Langston Hughes Houses in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Dunbar had been shot twice in the chest; his son sustained a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Both were pronounced dead at the scene and the building was placed on lockdown as officers responded.

Dupree Dunbar had a well-known reputation in Brownsville, with prior convictions for weapons possession, robbery, and conspiracy, and reports say some of his sons had alleged ties to local gangs. In 2012 two of his sons were among 43 people arrested in an NYPD operation targeting members of the Wave Gang and rival Hoodstarz.

Anyone with information about the shootings on November 27, 2015, at the Langston Hughes Houses is asked to come forward.