Brooklyn Family Pleads For Help After Son's Murder
NEW YORK (CBS 2) -- In Brooklyn, there's a murder case that the victim's family hopes does not become a cold case. They are hoping to keep the investigation alive by offering a reward in hopes that a witness will come forward.
Brent Duncan's parents want to shed some light on his death nearly three months ago.
"This murder has changed our lives forever," Duncan's father, Peter, said.
Duncan, who was 18 and finishing his first year of college, went to a barbeque at a home on Schenectady Avenue at Foster on June 19.
The family says Duncan left the party with several of his cousins. They were getting into his car when, suddenly, he was shot.
"We are standing here today on the very ground where my son was murdered," Peter said.
The victim's parents, who say they know detectives are working on the case, say the killing may have been retribution for something their son said to a girl a year earlier. But after a party, in a crowded street, they ask, "no witnesses?"
"Close to 100 people out here when these kids, from across there, the garage, shot at my son here, and nobody wants to say anything?" Peter said.
The woman who lives in the home where the party took place said she knows nothing about what was behind the shooting.
"I don't know nothing," she said. "All I know is just the little boy was getting in his car and got killed."
"I'm praying that someone who saw something come forward and say something," Dionne Vincent, Duncan's mother, said. "He was such a good boy."
The parents say it's a tragedy that young people and their families who live in the area have to worry every day about gun violence.
With the family coming up with $6,000, and the police offering $2,000, the total reward for information leading to a conviction is $8,000.
