Seventeen-year-old Eduardo Hernandez Martinez was shot and killed in Queens on July 7, 2021, during a daylight meeting tied to a planned marijuana sale. The shooting occurred about 4:20 p.m. near Junction Boulevard in Elmhurst. Surveillance footage showed Eduardo meeting 18-year-old Dennis Vassilenko of Brooklyn; the video captures Vassilenko leading Eduardo to a barbershop on 40th Road, then producing a gun from a backpack and shooting him twice in the chest at point-blank range. Hernandez Martinez was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where he died of his wounds.

Investigators identified Dennis Vassilenko as the primary suspect and arrested him on July 29, 2021, during a raid at his Brooklyn residence. He was charged with murder in the second degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon. A 23-year-old Brooklyn woman, Stephanie Pena, was arrested as the driver of the getaway car and later faced related charges.

Does anyone have information about Eduardo’s movements that afternoon or about witnesses who were in the Junction Boulevard area?