On the afternoon of March 20, 2023, Dion Reid, a 26-year-old Black man, was standing outside the Francena Mini Market at 1608 Sterling Place in Crown Heights when a masked gunman opened fire around 1:10 p.m. Reid was struck in the torso and his right foot and fell unconscious on the sidewalk. Emergency responders transported him to NYC Health and Hospitals/Kings County, where he was later pronounced dead.

The NYPD’s 77th Precinct investigated the daytime shooting. After about ten months the department announced an arrest: on January 22, 2024, 20-year-old Derrick Prescod of Bedford-Stuyvesant was charged with murder in connection with Reid’s killing. The attack occurred in a busy residential-commercial block and left the neighborhood grieving.

If anyone saw the shooting, knows more about Reid’s movements that afternoon, or has information not yet reported, please share what is known.