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A birthday celebration at an auto repair shop in Richmond Hill ended in gunfire on July 2, 2022. Justin Baerga, 24, was at a party inside D-Touch Collision on 89th Avenue when a man entered by slipping under a partially open metal gate and fired about a dozen shots into the garage at approximately 9:39 p.m. Baerga was struck in the head and legs and was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he died of his injuries. Three other people were wounded: a 25-year-old man shot in the right leg and two females, 17 and 18, grazed by bullets; both women declined medical attention at the scene.

Police later identified 27-year-old Curtis Benjamin of South Ozone Park as the man who walked in from a black SUV and produced a handgun before the shooting. An arrest has been made in connection with the case. Does anyone who attended the party or lives nearby recall seeing the black SUV or anyone acting suspiciously that night?