On the afternoon of April 9, 2026, gunfire erupted on the Upper West Side and left 33-year-old Rashaun Hopkins dead. The shooting happened just before 5 p.m. in front of an apartment building at 53 West 104th Street, between Columbus and Manhattan avenues. Hopkins, a resident of the nearby NYCHA Frederick Douglass Houses, was struck multiple times in the chest only a few blocks from his home on Amsterdam Avenue.

Officers from the 24th Precinct found Hopkins gravely wounded and he was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Witnesses told police a male with a dark complexion, dressed all in black, fled westbound on a moped. No arrests have been announced and the NYPD continues to investigate and seek a motive.

If anyone has information about what happened that afternoon or about the suspect seen fleeing on a moped, please come forward to assist the investigation.