Anthony Pratts, a 38-year-old man, died on September 11, 2021, and was connected in online records to Red Hook, New York. In the digital trail that followed, the bare facts arrived first—name, date, place—then the heavier implication: a gun-violence memorial entry lists the death as a loss to gun violence on that date in Red Hook.
What comes through most clearly is how quickly a life can be reduced to fragments online, and how friends and strangers try to stitch meaning back into the gaps. On the gun-violence memorial page, “Goya” appears as a nickname, and “tattoo artist” appears as an occupation—small identifiers that read like someone’s attempt to keep Pratts from becoming only a statistic. The same page includes brief, plainspoken remarks left in remembrance.
The obituary listing hosted through a funeral-home arrangement places the public farewell in Brooklyn, with visitation scheduled for September 16, 2021 at Las Rosas Funeral Home on 4th Avenue, and it notes a private cremation at Rosehill Crematory in Linden, New Jersey—details that suggest ties reaching beyond any single town called “Red Hook.”
Beyond those memorial and service details, the circumstances of the shooting itself remain largely undescribed in the readily accessible sources: the obituary listing does not lay out a narrative of what happened, and the gun-violence memorial entry does not provide a public account of where, how, or why the fatal violence unfolded. With two places sharing the name “Red Hook” in New York, the sources reviewed do not clearly resolve whether the location refers to the Dutchess County town or the Brooklyn neighborhood, even as they consistently connect Pratts to “Red Hook, New York” while routing services through Brooklyn.
In searching for the next part of the story—who was responsible, whether anyone was arrested, whether charges were filed—no publicly visible announcement surfaced in the sources reviewed that identifies a suspect or documents an arrest tied to Pratts’s death. A review of the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office 2021 news-release index likewise did not reveal a posted release naming Pratts or describing a related arrest, leaving the public record, at least online, with mourning details but without the accountability milestones that often follow a homicide.
