Kristopher Pride, a 25-year-old Black man from Buffalo, was shot while riding a bicycle on the city’s East Side on July 17, 2013. The shooting occurred on the 100 block of Keystone Avenue near Walden and Bailey just before 7:30 p.m. Responders found Pride down in the street; witnesses said he was conscious and speaking as police and firefighters tended to him at the curb.

An ambulance did not arrive for roughly twenty to thirty minutes, according to multiple eyewitnesses. Rural/Metro, the city’s ambulance provider that night, reported an unusually heavy surge of calls and ambulances held up at hospitals; a mutual aid request brought a Twin City Ambulance unit to transport Pride to Erie County Medical Center, where he later died. No arrests had been reported and no suspect was publicly identified. Whoever saw the shooting or knows what sparked it is asked to come forward.