Reginald Barnes, a 28-year-old Black man from Buffalo, New York, was killed on September 24, 2015, in a burst of gunfire along Woodlawn Avenue near the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts. Reports place the shooting near the intersections of Woodlawn and Masten and near Woodlawn and Michigan. Police said Barnes was shot while inside a vehicle traveling on Woodlawn; the car continued a few hundred feet before coming to rest outside the school.

Investigators did not say whether Barnes had been driving or whether anyone else was in the vehicle when the shots were fired, leaving key questions unanswered as detectives began the homicide inquiry. The school went into lockdown, students were moved away from the street-facing side of the building, streets were blocked and students were escorted onto buses while parents and community groups, including Buffalo Peacemakers, gathered at the scene.

If anyone has information about who was in that vehicle or what happened on Woodlawn that afternoon, please share what is known.