A college graduation party on Quincy Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant ended in tragedy shortly after midnight on June 8, 2014. Cornell Clarke, a 21-year-old man from East New York, was shot in the torso when multiple rounds rang out as the gathering of about a hundred people was winding down. He was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Two teenage girls, 17 and 19, were also struck by gunfire and treated at the same hospital; both were reported in stable condition. Neighbors said police had visited the party earlier that evening about the large crowd. Clarke’s family said they believe he was not the intended target and that the bullets may have been meant for a friend. No motive had been determined and no arrests had been announced at the time of the initial reports.

If anyone attended that party or has information about what happened on Quincy Street that night, please come forward with tips for the investigation.