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Claretha Daniels, a 44-year-old Black woman from the Bronx, was killed just after midnight on May 24, 2024, when gunfire erupted outside an apartment building near Davidson Avenue and Evelyn Place in the University Heights area. Neighbors said a late-night hangout turned into a fistfight; someone then reportedly went inside and returned with others. When shots were fired, Daniels and another resident, Justin Lawless, were struck in the chest and later died at St. Barnabas Hospital. A third man was wounded in the arm.

Police initially described two male suspects in dark clothing who were believed to have fled on a red moped, while some witnesses suggested the shooter ran away on foot. Shell casings and a growing memorial marked the scene by daylight. Federal prosecutors later alleged in a superseding indictment that six defendants tied to Tren de Aragua agreed with others to kill Daniels and Lawless near 2290 Davidson Avenue and carried out or aided and abetted the shooting, charging murder, assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering, firearms offenses, and related racketeering counts; multiple defendants were listed as in custody, one at large, and one previously removed from the United States.

Are there readers who saw the fight or the red moped that night who can share what they observed?