Short, sharp and public: on the evening of December 7, 2025, 38-year-old Gregory Stewart was found with a gunshot wound to the head in a stairwell at Sotomayor Houses, a public housing complex at 1744 Watson Avenue in the Soundview section of the Bronx. Officers from the 43rd Precinct and Police Service Area 8 responded after a 911 call; Stewart was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi and pronounced dead shortly thereafter.

Stewart is described as a Wakefield resident who lived on Barnes Avenue, more than four miles from the scene. The shooting ended a 12-day citywide stretch without a homicide that had begun on November 25. Police later identified and arrested 28-year-old Sean Grant, a Sotomayor Houses resident, charging him with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. Investigators said the motive and the reason Stewart was at the building were unclear at the time of the arrest.

Did anyone in Soundview or Wakefield see Stewart at or near the Sotomayor Houses on December 7?