On the early morning of January 16, 2014, 25-year-old Yves Jean-Julien of Babylon was fatally shot outside the Nite Owl Lounge in Deer Park, New York. Jean-Julien was sitting in a white Cadillac in the lounge’s parking lot with two others when a group standing outside opened fire on the vehicle. Multiple gunshots struck Jean-Julien and another passenger, Javonne Mimms; Mimms survived with serious injuries and the third occupant was uninjured. The shooters fled in two separate vehicles.

Investigators treated the attack as a homicide and explored motives including a possible gang connection. Arrests followed in the months after the shooting: Jhamek Daniels of Brentwood and 27-year-old Demar Rose of Deer Park were charged with second-degree murder in Jean-Julien’s death and second-degree attempted murder in Mimms’s wounding.