On the morning of March 24, 2015, 30-year-old Natik Nisimov was found unconscious on a sidewalk along Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn with a single gunshot wound to his chest. Emergency responders pronounced him dead after he was taken to Coney Island Hospital. Investigators recovered one shell casing at the scene but the murder weapon was not located.

Nisimov lived in Gravesend and owned a salon in Kensington. Friends remembered him as a great kid with a great heart, though they said he had some personal troubles. The killing appears tied to an earlier violent episode that night: a mutual friend had been stabbed, and one man later confessed to thinking Nisimov had passed a knife to the stabber. Investigators concluded Nisimov was not involved in that stabbing.

Police arrested 31-year-old Jeffrey McCrae of Brighton Beach in June 2015; while detained on an unrelated grand larceny charge he made a video statement admitting to shooting Nisimov and was charged with second-degree murder and weapon possession. Subsequent trial testimony said McCrae lured Nisimov to Ocean Parkway and shot him. Does anyone have additional information about Natik’s life or the people who knew him?