Timothy Parker, 37 and known as TJ, was fatally shot inside the George Washington Houses complex on East 102nd Street in East Harlem in the early hours of October 25, 2022. The shooting occurred about 2:30 a.m. in a hallway outside his apartment; Parker was pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot wounds to the head and chest.

Investigators concluded the killing was a planned execution tied to a dispute over drug money. Records say Terrence Haynes, then incarcerated, used jailhouse phone calls to recruit Shaun McClam and Luis Roman to carry out the murder. In the days beforehand McClam surveilled Parker’s building and recorded video of the hallway and Parker. On the night of the homicide Roman supplied a firearm and McClam, disguised as a delivery worker and wearing a black wig, waited outside Parker’s door before confronting and shooting him multiple times.

McClam and Roman were arrested in June 2023 and charged with second degree murder; Haynes was charged with second degree conspiracy. McClam later pleaded guilty to Murder in the Second Degree and Conspiracy in the Second Degree, and Roman pleaded guilty to Manslaughter in the First Degree and Conspiracy in the Second Degree. The case against Haynes is pending. Did anyone in East Harlem see suspicious delivery activity or an e-bike near East 102nd Street that night?