Rashaun Nicholson, 31, was fatally shot in the head on the evening of December 28, 2014, in Manhattan. Family members say he had been delivering Christmas presents to his four children and had returned from work in South Carolina to spend the holidays. The shooting occurred at about 7 p.m. on Catherine Street, between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges, outside 78 Catherine Street, a homeless shelter near the Alfred E. Smith Houses.

According to his wife and police, Nicholson had gone into Brooklyn to buy a gift for her and was returning home when an altercation with another individual escalated; that person shot Nicholson in the head and fled. Nicholson was pronounced dead at the scene. An investigation tied the killing to a narcotics distribution conspiracy and led to the arrest of 23-year-old Frank Jenkins of Vermont, who later pleaded guilty in February 2017 to Nicholson’s murder and faced sentencing scheduled for June 2, 2017.

Did anyone living in or around the Alfred E. Smith Houses on December 28, 2014, see anything that night?