In the early morning hours of October 19, 2022, Obdulio Martinez, 40, was shot in the Williamsbridge area of the Bronx near East 216th Street and White Plains Road. Police from the 47th Precinct found him with two gunshot wounds to the chest at about 3:34 a.m. He was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi and was pronounced dead.

Detectives canvassed the neighborhood and sought witnesses. The motive was not immediately clear, though authorities explored whether Martinez’s past might have been a factor. Both Martinez and the individual later charged lived within half a mile of each other in the same Bronx neighborhood; it was not publicly confirmed whether they knew one another before the shooting. On November 3, 2022, police arrested 30-year-old Roshane Allen in connection with the slaying and charged him with murder, criminal possession of a weapon, assault, and menacing. The NYPD continued investigating the circumstances of the killing.

Did anyone in Williamsbridge see or hear anything that night, or know either man?