A long-running dispute over noise between neighbors in an East Flatbush apartment building ended in violence on October 29, 2023. Forty-seven-year-old Bladimy Mathurin, a school bus driver and father of four, was shot and killed in the hallway after a confrontation with his downstairs neighbor, 47-year-old Jason Pass. Mathurin’s 27-year-old stepson, Chinwai Mode, was also shot and killed during the same encounter.

Surveillance footage shows Pass confronting Mathurin’s wife; Mathurin then emerges holding a pair of scissors and an argument escalates. Pass produced a handgun and shot both men, then returned to shoot a still-struggling Mathurin again at point-blank range before leaving the scene. Police later identified Pass as the suspect and located him during a traffic stop. When officers confronted him, Pass charged at them with a knife and was shot and killed by police. The handgun used in the hallway shooting was not legally registered.

If anyone knew the victims, the neighbor relationship, or saw activity in the building that night, information could still help clarify what led to this escalation.