Damon Haskins, a 41-year-old Black man from Brooklyn, was fatally shot on the evening of September 5, 2015. The shooting happened around 8:30 p.m. near a block party on Sterling Place and Classon Avenue in Prospect Heights. Haskins was found with a gunshot wound to his chest, taken to Methodist Hospital in cardiac arrest, and pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

The loss compounded an already devastating family tragedy: Haskins’s sister Tamecca Haskins had been shot and killed at a Fourth of July celebration in 2014, making this the second child Venita Haskins lost to gun violence in just over a year. The shooting was one of several violent incidents reported in the neighborhood over Labor Day weekend. The NYPD opened an investigation but initially identified no suspects and made no arrests; the case remained open.

If anyone attended the block party or was in the area that evening and has information, please come forward.