Deval Watkins, 36, was shot and killed in a Buffalo parking lot on the 400 block of William Street near Jefferson Avenue in the early hours of April 19, 2025. The shooting occurred at about 1:30 a.m.; emergency responders found Watkins at the scene and he was pronounced dead there.

Police identified 31-year-old Mikel L. Lowe of Buffalo as the person alleged to have fired the illegal handgun that struck Watkins. Lowe was arrested, indicted, and arraigned on charges of Murder in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree; he was held without bail after arraignment. The case is being prosecuted by the Erie County District Attorney’s Homicide Bureau and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Was anyone in that neighborhood on the night of April 19 who saw what happened or has information about the parking lot activity around 1:30 a.m.?