In the early morning hours of Saturday, March 25, 2023, a shooting at East 179th Street and Mapes Avenue in the Bronx left 34-year-old Darnell Johnson dead. Police responding to a 3:07 a.m. 911 call found Johnson with multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital and pronounced deceased.

A 33-year-old man was also shot in the right arm and transported to Bronx Lebanon Hospital in stable condition. Johnson lived in the Wakefield section of the Bronx. Initial NYPD reports described an active investigation and asked the public for information about the incident. No motive is described in the report; investigators were still working to determine any connection between the victims and the shooter.

Did anyone in the Wakefield area see or hear anything that night or know the victims?