On the evening of Saturday, July 12, 2025, 27-year-old Jahshyim Whitfield was fatally shot outside the Lafayette Gardens public housing complex in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. He was discovered near Dekalb and Kent Avenues with a gunshot wound to his torso and taken to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in critical condition; he was later pronounced dead. Whitfield lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant and worked as a security guard.

Whitfield was on his way to pick up his 9-year-old daughter from a beauty parlor and was a father to two young girls. Family members remembered him as a devoted, affectionate father who enjoyed his grandmother’s cooking; his sudden death left the family devastated. The NYPD was investigating, had not identified a motive, and no suspects or arrests had been publicly named in the days following the shooting.

Did anyone in the Clinton Hill or Bedford-Stuyvesant area see what happened or have information that could help the investigation?