Mahki Brown was 16 when he was fatally shot on May 7, 2024, in SoHo, Manhattan. A student at Broome Street Academy Charter High School who commuted more than an hour each way from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, he played basketball and was remembered by friends and family as a peacemaker who tried to intervene in a dispute.

The confrontation that led to the shooting began the day before between two female students and erupted near Spring and Dominick streets just after school dismissal. Reports say one girl called her brother for backup; shortly after two people arrived on a Citi Bike and one opened fire into a crowd of students. Brown was struck in the head and thigh, collapsed in a nearby walkway, and was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.

On May 17, 2024, the U.S. Marshals Service arrested 19-year-old Henry Thomas in Harlem and charged him with murder. On June 12, 2024, a 16-year-old male was taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder; his name is withheld because of his age. The connection between the arrests and the original dispute remains part of the ongoing legal process.

Did anyone who knew Mahki or witnessed the events near Spring and Dominick streets come forward with information?