Omark Dee, a 27-year-old man, was killed by gunfire in Brooklyn, New York, on August 24, 1992. Publicly available accounts provide few details about the circumstances of the shooting itself, including the precise location, the number of times he was shot, whether anyone witnessed the attack, or what happened in the moments leading to his death. His killing later emerged as one of several Brooklyn homicides that investigators believed were connected to Richard "Babyface" Jameswhite, a young member of the Parkside Gang operating around Flatbush and the southern edge of Prospect Park.
Jameswhite had already attracted police attention before Dee's death. Investigators said he became involved in retaliatory violence after his brother, Glester, was killed in East Flatbush in early 1991. Jameswhite was arrested the following month for allegedly shooting and attempting to kill a person he believed was responsible for his brother's death, but he jumped bail and remained at large. Police subsequently portrayed him as an exceptionally volatile fugitive who was willing to shoot over revenge, gang disagreements, drug conflicts, robberies, or minor provocations.
As detectives reconstructed Jameswhite's activities, they publicly identified Dee as one of the people they believed he had killed. The list also included Javier Avila, Fitzroy Reid, Ryan Cambridge and Dodson Sparman. Police officials said some of the suspected killings arose from disputes inside the gang, while others were connected to drugs or retaliation. Available reports do not specify which motive investigators assigned to Dee's death, nor do they describe evidence such as eyewitness identifications, ballistics, a confession, or forensic findings directly connecting Jameswhite to the shooting.
Jameswhite remained a fugitive for years while authorities investigated him in connection with killings and other violent crimes in several jurisdictions. His flight ended on April 28, 1994, near Atlanta, Georgia, after a minor automobile collision in a shopping-center parking lot escalated into the fatal shooting of Anthony Maclin. Jameswhite and another Brooklyn man, Devon Brown, fled the scene. Police pursued them to a nearby apartment complex, where Jameswhite was captured carrying two firearms. Brown initially escaped but was arrested the following day. Fingerprint checks revealed Jameswhite's identity and alerted Georgia authorities that New York police had been searching for him in connection with multiple Brooklyn homicides, including Dee's death.
Jameswhite and Brown were indicted in Georgia for malice murder and felony murder in Maclin's killing. They were tried together in December 1994 and convicted. The Georgia Supreme Court later upheld their convictions, finding that eyewitness testimony and firearms evidence supported the verdicts. The guns recovered when Jameswhite was arrested were linked to bullets and cartridge cases from the Georgia crime scene.
Although Jameswhite was publicly described as the suspect in Dee's killing, available online records do not establish that he was separately indicted, tried or convicted for Dee's homicide. The sources describe the connection as an investigative belief rather than a completed prosecution. No additional suspect is publicly identified in the accessible accounts, and no source located describes an accomplice in Dee's shooting. As a result, the historical record available online leaves Dee's death attributed by investigators to Jameswhite but without a documented arrest or courtroom resolution specifically for that case.
