Jordan Barber was an 18-year-old aspiring chef who was shot in the neck and killed on June 29, 2015, outside the Polo Grounds Houses in Harlem. The shooting happened after a basketball tournament at Rucker Park; Barber had stepped in to de-escalate a confrontation between two groups when gunfire erupted. He was able to tell his mother and brother he loved them before he died.

Investigators identified 19-year-old Demetrius Washington as a suspect. Washington was arrested in July 2015 and indicted on second-degree murder in August 2015. Authorities said Washington fired into the crowd, killing Barber and wounding two other teenagers, and linked the incident to a rivalry between the East Army gang of East Harlem and the 600/Gutta Gang of West Harlem. The indictment of Washington’s murder charge was part of a larger 2016 indictment of numerous alleged gang members on counts including attempted murder and gang assault.