In the early morning hours of Wednesday, February 22, 2023, a large fight involving as many as 20 people broke out in the parking lot of the 33 Speakeasy Grill on Genesee Street in Cheektowaga. Twenty-four-year-old DeAngelo Williams of Buffalo stepped in to try to de-escalate the confrontation and was shot multiple times. Police found him on the ground; he was taken to Erie County Medical Center and pronounced dead there.

Investigators reported that many people present fled before they could be interviewed, and by April the police chief said the probe had reached a dead end. Williams’s family publicly appealed for witnesses, and his sister described him as a family man and the life of the party. No arrests or suspect identifications have been announced and the case remains open.

Did anyone who was at the 33 Speakeasy Grill that night see what happened or hear anything useful?