Before dawn on July 31, 2024, Shamel Anthony Massie was shot on Roxbury Street in the Mariners Harbor section of Staten Island, near the Mariners Harbor Houses. Massie, a 28-year-old Black man, was found after a 911 call brought officers to the block at about 5:07 a.m., where the scene quickly resolved into a double shooting rather than a single victim.
Police said Massie had been struck by gunfire in the head and also suffered wounds to both arms, injuries so severe that he was pronounced dead at the location. A second victim—another man the same age—had been hit in the left arm and was taken to Richmond University Medical Center, where he was reported to be in stable condition. The NYPD’s early account placed the shooting in front of 56 Roxbury St., and coverage at the time described the investigation as active, with detectives working to determine what led up to the gunfire and who pulled the trigger.
In the immediate aftermath, authorities had not announced any arrests and did not publicly identify a suspect or suspects, leaving the killing unresolved in the public record available at the time of reporting. The homicide was described in local coverage as the borough’s first reported gun killing of the year up to that date, adding an extra weight to the morning’s violence as investigators searched for answers and the neighborhood tried to make sense of what had happened outside the housing development.
Massie’s death was later memorialized in a published notice from Cherubini-McInerney Funeral Home, which listed his dates as November 7, 1995 to July 31, 2024, and placed services in Staten Island. The obituary and funeral home listing did not address the shooting itself, but it marked the moment when the case moved from an active crime scene into a grieving family’s reality—an ending recorded not only in police summaries, but also in the quieter formalities of remembrance.
