A pre-dawn shootout in Ozone Park, Queens, on June 19, 2022, left 38-year-old Raymond Francis dead after he was struck by gunfire during an exchange that began when Francis and an accomplice confronted two men in their vehicles. Surveillance footage shows Francis, armed with a handgun, and 32-year-old Richard Dixon, carrying an assault-style rifle with his lower face masked, approaching Kenardo Kelly and Dwayne Whyte on Cross Bay Boulevard near Pitkin Avenue. Dixon opened fire on Kelly and his car; Whyte returned fire from his vehicle and at least one round struck Francis.

Francis collapsed at the scene and was pronounced dead at a hospital. Kelly suffered gunshot wounds to the face and upper back and sustained a broken jaw; Whyte was shot in the leg. Dixon sustained multiple gunshot wounds, later sought hospital treatment in Nassau County, and was identified and indicted on charges including murder in the second degree for Francis’s death, attempted murder, assault in the first degree, and criminal possession of a weapon.

Are there witnesses or local residents who recall seeing the vehicles or the men involved that morning?