On the night of June 4, 2014, 24-year-old Leonard Milton Hines was shot near East 187th Street and Bathgate Avenue in the Belmont section of the Bronx. The shooting happened just before 11 p.m. Emergency responders found Hines with a gunshot wound to his chest and a 17-year-old male with a gunshot wound to his arm. Both were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where Hines was pronounced dead; the 17-year-old was reported in stable condition.

Hines’s family said he had just celebrated his birthday and described him as being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In July 2014, the NYPD arrested 18-year-old Deyshawn Pantoja and charged him with murder and assault in connection with the fatal shooting. Later investigative work tied the killing to broader gang conflicts in the Bronx; a 2016 indictment named the murder of Leonard Hines among violent acts attributed to members of the Nine-Four Crew and alleged that Dayshawn Pantoja was responsible for Hines’s death and the wounding of the 17-year-old Alvin Davidson.

Did anyone in Belmont or Fordham have information about how that night unfolded or about Hines’s movements leading up to June 4?