Jermaine Dixon, 46, was killed in a brazen, execution-style shooting on the morning of September 6, 2021. The attack happened about 7:50 a.m. in South Ozone Park as Dixon was getting into his car on 132nd Street near South Conduit Avenue. A gunman disguised in clothing described as traditional Hasidic Jewish dress ran up and shot Dixon multiple times in the head at point-blank range; emergency services pronounced him dead at the scene.

Surveillance footage showed the assailant apparently working on a nearby car for several hours before the ambush. Dixon was carrying roughly $10,000 in cash, which the shooter left behind. Dixon had been released from federal prison less than a year before the killing after serving nearly two decades for a 1992 murder and drug charges; he had been a member of a Brooklyn group known as the Patio Crew and reportedly earned a college degree while incarcerated.

Authorities later arrested 53-year-old Ron Reeder of Teaneck, New Jersey, on February 23, 2023, and charged him with murder and weapons counts; investigators described him as a suspected hired hitman and said the slaying may be linked to Dixon’s past and possibly the narcotics trade. Two others were also arrested during the raid on unrelated weapons, drugs, and identity theft allegations. Does anyone have information about Dixon’s activities in Queens around September 2021 or about the surveillance seen near 132nd Street?