Thomas Little, 34, was killed in the early minutes of Saturday, June 6, 2026, after gunfire erupted outside an apartment building on Somers Street in the Ocean Hill/Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. Police were called to the front of 17 Somers Street around 12:37 a.m. after a 911 report of an assault. Officers found Little suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the head; he was taken to Brookdale University Hospital and pronounced dead.

Early police reporting did not describe what led up to the shooting, whether Little was targeted, or whether there had been an argument or confrontation. His life included a history of severe childhood injury when his foot was nearly severed in a garbage chute incident and years of recovery, plus prior criminal cases: a robbery sentence on Long Island and a later federal case related to smuggling people across the border. He had served additional federal time after a supervised-release violation involving a vehicle with guns. In 2025 he told a federal judge he regretted his past and wanted to focus on his daughter.

As of the latest reports, no arrests had been announced and no suspects identified; the death is being investigated as a homicide. If anyone saw activity outside 17 Somers Street around midnight on June 6 or has information about this shooting, please come forward.