On a Sunday night in November 2022 a single-vehicle crash in Flushing, Queens, was reclassified as a homicide. Twenty-five-year-old Tao Wu was found unconscious inside his overturned 2022 BMW at 37th Avenue and Parsons Boulevard, taken to a hospital, and pronounced dead. Investigators discovered a gunshot wound to Wu’s upper back as the cause of death.

NYPD surveillance shows a white Mercedes-Benz pulling alongside Wu’s parked BMW just before 10 p.m. A person stepped out from the rear of the Mercedes, fired a single shot through the driver-side window, then returned to the Mercedes, which sped away. A wounded Wu tried to drive off but lost control, struck a curb and rolled his car.

An indictment announced in January 2024 links four alleged members of the Trinitarios to Wu’s killing and other violent crimes in Queens. Prosecutors allege the Mercedes had been stolen in New Jersey, that Jonathan Rodriguez fired the fatal shot during an attempted armed carjacking on November 20, 2022, and that a 9mm ghost gun recovered after a later collision matched the murder weapon.

Did anyone in the area that night see the Mercedes or remember anything about the incident that could help the investigation?