Freddie Weston, 47, was shot and killed on the mezzanine level of the Rockaway Avenue subway station in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, on the night of September 4, 2024. An MTA worker heard a single gunshot and found Weston with a gunshot wound to the head; he was taken to Brookdale University Hospital and pronounced dead on arrival.

Weston, known to family as Junior, was the youngest of seven siblings and described by relatives as a good person who was not involved in street life. His brother Derrick Weston is an MTA train operator who frequently works through the same station. Family members said the shooting felt targeted and left them distraught.

Police later developed a case against 57-year-old Donald Haywood of Clinton Hill, who was arrested on November 6, 2024, and charged with second-degree murder and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Prosecutors allege a love triangle motive, accuse Haywood of stalking Weston, and say surveillance shows Haywood following Weston from a woman’s home and changing clothes at the station before the shooting.

Did anyone know Freddie’s routines or see activity around the Rockaway Avenue station that night?