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Danny Russell, a 44-year-old father of three from Brooklyn, was fatally shot on a Schenectady street late on Labor Day, September 1, 2014. He had spent the day at Lake George with childhood friend Carlos Seebarran and their families for a daughter’s eighth birthday, then returned to Schenectady and later left the house that evening.

Shortly after 11:30 p.m. residents in the Vale neighborhood reported hearing an argument followed by multiple gunshots. Seebarran was alerted by a neighbor and found Russell in front of a vacant home, struggling to breathe from several gunshot wounds. Paramedics took Russell to Ellis Hospital, where he was pronounced dead; an autopsy was scheduled to determine the exact cause of death.

Police initially had no suspects. Investigators later arrested 24-year-old Gammen Knight of Schenectady; he was arraigned on a charge of second-degree murder in February 2015 and jailed without bail. Authorities said the shooting was linked to an earlier dispute after Russell intervened in a fight between the mother of his child and the mother of Knight’s child.

Did anyone in the area see or hear anything the night of September 1, 2014 that could help clarify what happened?