On the night of June 30, 2026, a 911 call reporting an assault in progress brought police to an apartment building on Foster Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Officers found 24-year-old Tatiana Pettus inside with a fatal gunshot wound to her neck. Emergency personnel transported her to NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County, where she was pronounced dead.

Tatiana Pettus was a mother to a one-year-old daughter and worked nights at a local Amazon warehouse; she had been planning a family reunion in North Carolina. Police quickly treated the case as a domestic incident and focused on her live-in boyfriend, 23-year-old Tahj Nelson, after Nelson’s mother — who lived in the apartment — reported hearing a loud argument and then a single gunshot. Investigators say Nelson fled the scene and was later taken into custody on July 6, 2026.

Nelson was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon and pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on July 7, 2026. The couple’s young daughter was not in the apartment at the time and was safe with relatives. Does anyone have information about Tatiana’s last known movements or the hours before the shooting?