Desmond J. Zimmerman, 25, known to some as Popout SG, was fatally wounded in a shooting on August 19, 2023, at the intersection of 4th and Niagara Street in Niagara Falls, New York. The shooting occurred in the early hours of a Saturday near the city’s tourist district; Zimmerman and another involved person went to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center, where Zimmerman later died. A firearm was reportedly confiscated on hospital grounds.

Zimmerman’s death was recorded as the eighth homicide in Niagara Falls that year. Friends and family held a balloon release to honor him, and social media showed an outpouring of grief. Niagara Falls Police detectives have been investigating and searching for clues, but no arrests, named suspects, or persons of interest have been publicly released.

If anyone witnessed the shooting near 4th and Niagara Street that morning or has information about what happened, please share what is known with investigators.