Jlynn Reeves, 36, was shot and killed inside the Levister Towers apartment building at 70 West Third Street in Mount Vernon, New York, on the evening of December 12, 2014. Surveillance footage shows Reeves entering the lobby shortly before 10:00 p.m., where he had a heated verbal exchange lasting about two minutes with 28-year-old resident Phillip Copeland. The two then walked toward a basement stairwell; gunshots were heard off camera and a security guard alerted his supervisor, who called 911.

Police found Reeves at the bottom of the basement stairs with several spent shell casings nearby. An autopsy documented multiple gunshot wounds to the neck, chest, abdomen, liver, spleen, and kidney. Detectives identified Copeland from the video; a pat-down when he exited a first-floor apartment later that night revealed a loaded .380 caliber automatic pistol concealed in his sock, and ballistics tied that gun to the killing. Copeland was arrested, charged with murder and weapons offenses, and later pleaded guilty to Murder in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree; on October 20, 2015, he received a 20 years to life sentence.

Are there details about Reeves’s life or the events in the building that anyone familiar with Levister Towers can add?