Joseph Taheim Bryan, a 50-year-old filmmaker and writer, was killed in Long Island City on the night of Thursday, August 19, 2021. At about 11:15 p.m. Bryan was seated in his new Mercedes-Benz on Jackson Avenue when a shooter approached and fired roughly seven times into the driver’s side. He was struck multiple times in the arm and torso and later pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.

Surveillance footage captured a man pacing nearby on a cell phone before moving to the vehicle and opening fire; a dark-colored Mazda that had dropped off the shooter fled the scene. The NYPD described the attack as a targeted killing and sought two suspects. Bryan was known in the entertainment community for his recent film Equal Standard and is survived by a wife and daughter.

If anyone has information about Bryan that could help the investigation or recalls activity near Jackson Avenue that night, please come forward.