On the night of Saturday, March 8, 2025, 45-year-old Bronx resident Steven Battle was shot in the head and later pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital. The shooting happened at about 2:47 a.m. in the Ocean Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn after a dispute that began inside The Daily Press, a business at 38 Somers Street that is a coffee shop by day and a bar by night.

Witnesses said Battle had threatened to air the place out after he could not find his phone. Surveillance footage reportedly shows a gunman firing at Battle as he was walking to a parked white Honda Accord; the shooter then fled in a black four-door Cadillac SUV. The NYPD described the suspect as a Black male with a dark complexion, slim build, braids and facial hair, wearing a dark-blue hooded sweatshirt, light grey jeans and black-and-white sneakers. No arrests have been announced and the investigation is ongoing.

If anyone was near The Daily Press that morning or has footage or information about the shooting or the vehicle involved, please come forward.