Raphael Kurton was 27 when he was shot dead shortly before 9:30 p.m. on May 26, 2015, outside a corner bodega on Newkirk Avenue in the Ditmas Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. An argument between Kurton and another man escalated; that man, identified as Patrick Zephir, produced a firearm and fired six shots, striking Kurton in the torso and thigh. Kurton staggered about half a block toward his home on Ocean Avenue, collapsed, and was taken to Kings County Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

The shooter fled and the NYPD named Zephir as the primary suspect. He was located at his girlfriend’s home in Martinsburg, West Virginia, about two and a half months later and returned to Brooklyn to face charges. The killing prompted community leaders and residents to call for an end to the neighborhood’s gun violence.

Did anyone in Ditmas Park see the argument outside the bodega that night or notice anything about the shooter before he fled?