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On the morning of December 17, 2021, Dawn Peterson was killed outside her South Jamaica, Queens home after stepping out before dawn to start her car and leave for work. She was found badly wounded on the street near her address on Foch Boulevard, taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and pronounced dead.

Surveillance footage released by police shows a lone figure in dark clothing approach as Peterson stood by her vehicle, raise a firearm and fire repeatedly, striking her in the chest and back and continuing after she fell. Investigators recovered seven shell casings at the scene, and police say the shooter fled in a silver sedan. Inside the house Peterson’s mother, Janifer Taylor, was woken by the gunfire and saw the shape in the street.

Authorities repeatedly appealed for help and re-released video and images as the investigation continued; by the most recent updates no arrests had been announced and no suspect was publicly identified beyond the footage description. Did anyone on Foch Boulevard or nearby see a silver sedan or a person matching that description that morning?