On the evening of December 15, 2016, Noel Esbri, 32, was shot inside an apartment at 360 Palisades Avenue in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A friend placed a 911 call around 6:43 p.m.; emergency responders found Esbri had died of a single gunshot wound to his upper body. His death was counted as the ninth homicide in Bridgeport that year. Esbri, born on December 25, was remembered by friends and family as a gifted musician and rapper and a talented high school athlete.

Bridgeport police identified 25-year-old Richard Lopez as the person responsible, and alleged the shooting arose from a drug deal that became a robbery: witnesses said Lopez went to the apartment with another man intending to buy cocaine, pulled a gun, demanded drugs, and a struggle over the weapon ended with Esbri being shot. A warrant for Lopez was issued in early January 2017; he was located later that month at an apartment on Maplewood Avenue and taken into custody. He was charged with murder, felony murder, first-degree robbery, carrying a pistol without a permit and criminal possession of a firearm, with bond set at $750,000.

During the trial process a key witness refused to testify and the defense pointed to two other men as responsible. The jury ultimately returned not guilty verdicts on all counts in June 2022. Did anyone who knew Noel or who was in that building on December 15, 2016, see or hear anything that could fill in what happened that night?