Jefferson Jimenez Hernandez, 20, was shot and killed in the Bronx on May 18, 2022, after going to buy two motorcycles that were advertised online. Hernandez, who had moved from Guatemala to the United States about a decade earlier and lived in Spring Valley, went to the Mott Haven area with three friends and a flatbed U-Haul trailer to collect the bikes. Four men on two dirt bikes and two motorcycles ambushed the group and opened fire; Hernandez was struck several times in the head and later died at Lincoln Hospital. His friends were not injured. Investigators recovered an unloaded firearm in Hernandez’s vehicle, though its connection to the attack is unclear.

Three men have been arrested in connection with the killing: 23-year-old Manuel Reyes was arrested on May 22, 2022, and later charged with murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon; 32-year-old Joan Vasquez and 25-year-old Leonardo Hernandez were also arrested and face the same charges. Does anyone have information about that afternoon at East 144th Street and Exterior Street or the online ad that led Jefferson there?