A cherished community block party in Niagara Falls turned deadly on the evening of August 24, 2024. Forty-three-year-old Anthony Brantley was attending the annual memorial gathering at 9th Street and Ferry Avenue when gunfire erupted around 8:50 p.m. Responding officers found Brantley unresponsive on a front lawn with gunshot wounds to his chest; life-saving efforts by law enforcement were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Witnesses reported seeing a male suspect dressed entirely in black with a hoodie pulled over his head fleeing down 9th Street. The Niagara Falls Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division executed at least one search warrant in the neighborhood while collecting evidence. A suspect was later identified and apprehended; an indictment charging Murder in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree was unsealed and the suspect was remanded to sheriff’s custody to await further proceedings.

Did anyone at the 9th Street and Ferry Avenue block party or nearby businesses see anything that could help investigators?