On the night of July 30, 2023, 20-year-old Treyvon Dee Flood was one of five people inside a vehicle on the 100 block of Isabelle Street in Buffalo’s Riverside neighborhood when the car was struck by gunfire at about 11:30 p.m. Flood was taken to Erie County Medical Center and pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Two other passengers were critically affected: 20-year-old DeMarkus D. Manners later died of his wounds on August 2, 2023, and a 19-year-old male survived after being shot three times in the upper back and released from the hospital.

Buffalo Police Homicide investigators identified 21-year-old Clarence E. Thomas of Buffalo as the alleged shooter, accusing him of intentionally firing multiple shots into the occupied vehicle. Thomas was arrested and initially charged with two counts of second-degree murder, felony assault, and felony weapons possession. A grand jury later returned an indictment that added first-degree murder, additional second-degree murder counts, attempted murder counts, and multiple weapons charges; he was held in custody and scheduled for a pre-trial conference in October 2023.

What can readers who were in the Riverside neighborhood that night add to the timeline or the events on Isabelle Street?