Maurice Parker was 21 when he was shot dead outside the El Boom Convenience Store on Bowne Street in Flushing, Queens, in the early hours of May 18, 2007. Parker had recently returned to Queens from Maryland after finishing trade school. Known to friends as Moe Greazy, he played basketball and had attended Flushing High School.

Two individuals, identified as Oscar Taz Fuentes and Oscar Flecha Chavez, spotted Parker and, reportedly mistaking him for a rival because he wore a red hoodie, approached him. Chavez allegedly fired multiple shots, striking Parker in the head; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The killing prompted large community protests and inspired the Maurice Parker Memorial Classic basketball tournament.

Arrests followed and Fuentes and Chavez were arraigned on murder charges.