Bryan Cummings, a 40-year-old Black man, was killed in the early hours of February 28, 2023, after gunfire inside a first-floor apartment at 114 West 137th Street in Harlem. Police responded just before 2:30 a.m. and found him with a gunshot wound to his torso. He was moved by first responders to NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem in critical condition and did not survive.

Investigators classified the shooting as a homicide. In the immediate aftermath there were no arrests and no publicly identified suspect or description of who fired the shot. Detectives were working to reconstruct events inside the apartment and to identify anyone who may have been present or had information.

If anyone witnessed what happened that night or has information about who was in the apartment on February 28, contact the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS, the Spanish line at 1-888-57-PISTA, the Crime Stoppers website, or @NYPDTips on social media.