On April 18, 2023, at about 11:44 a.m., Syracuse police responded to reports of a shooting on the 200 block of Martin Luther King West and found 22-year-old Nykeem Stallworth in a driveway at 206 Furman Street with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper torso. Emergency medical personnel pronounced Stallworth dead at the scene.

Investigators conducted numerous interviews, a broad canvass of the neighborhood and city, executed search warrants and analyzed collected evidence. Their investigation focused on a 16-year-old male previously arrested for handgun possession near the scene; that juvenile, identified as Nile Trice, was arraigned in Youth Court on May 15, 2023 on charges of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and was remanded to Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Center.

Court records show Trice later admitted to the shooting and was sentenced to 20 years in prison; Stallworth’s mother and Trice spoke at the sentencing, and Trice expressed remorse. Does anyone have information about Stallworth’s life in Syracuse or the neighborhood around Furman Street that could add context to this case?