On the morning of June 20, 2022, 34-year-old Andre E. Jones of Lackawanna, New York, was fatally shot while sitting alone in his parked pickup truck on Olcott Street. He had been in the vehicle for about five minutes when two unidentified men approached and fired between 10 and 15 shots into the truck. The suspects ran on foot and were not captured at the scene.

Jones was taken to Mercy Hospital but died of multiple gunshot wounds. The shooting was the city’s first homicide in a couple of years and prompted an immediate investigation by the Lackawanna Police Department. No arrests have been announced, the suspects’ identities remain unknown, and no motive has been released.

If anyone was in the Olcott Street area that morning or has information about the two men who approached the truck, please share what you know with investigators.