On October 29, 2022, 33-year-old Martina Thompson was shot and killed in the rear parking lot of a strip mall on Middle Country Road in Coram, New York. Surveillance footage shows Thompson speaking with a man later identified as Anthony Santiesteban before she walked into a fenced, desolate area behind the businesses and he followed her. At about 1:25 a.m. a gunshot was heard; Thompson was found with a gunshot wound to the face and was pronounced dead after being taken to Long Island Community Hospital in East Patchogue.

Investigators traced the man on the video to 30-year-old Anthony Santiesteban of Centereach and arrested him on November 1, 2022. A loaded, defaced 9mm handgun was recovered from a bedroom search and ballistics testing linked a casing found at the scene to that firearm. Santiesteban was charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon; he was on probation at the time and had a prior conviction for first-degree burglary. The motive remained under investigation.

Did anyone in the Coram area see either Thompson or the Jeep the man left in that night?