On the evening of November 23, 2019, 19-year-old Marquavion Deshawn Brown was sitting in a parked car with a friend in an alley behind an apartment complex in the 200 block of Madison Street in Waterloo, Iowa. Just before 6 p.m., an assailant on foot opened fire on the vehicle; gunfire struck both Brown and his companion, 21-year-old Quintorey Farshawn D’Quan Kemp. First responders found the two men near a car with a shattered rear passenger window and transported both to UnityPoint-Allen Hospital.

Marquavion Brown was later pronounced dead from his injuries. Kemp survived but was seriously injured and transferred to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. Police executed a search warrant at a nearby apartment shortly after the shooting, and a crowd gathered at the hospital amid fears the disturbance was more gunfire, a noise later attributed to a speeding car hitting a curb.

Waterloo police confirmed Brown’s identity and continue to investigate his homicide. No arrests have been announced, and authorities are offering a reward for information leading to an arrest. If anyone has information about that November evening or the people involved, please contact the investigators handling this case.