Jermaine Reynolds, 46, was shot while in front of the RayMart gas station on Pine Avenue in Niagara Falls on the evening of March 10, 2021. He was taken to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center and then transferred to Erie County Medical Center, but died of his injuries on March 19, 2021.

Investigators from the Niagara Falls Police Department and the U.S. Marshal Violent Fugitive Task Force identified and arrested 23-year-old Hamil Dontrez Johnson at a home on 7th Street. Johnson was charged with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon; reports say he was on parole at the time for a prior weapons conviction.

Court proceedings led to a jury finding Johnson guilty of manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, and a sentence of 35 years in prison. The prosecution described the shooting as the result of a minor provocation that escalated because an illegal weapon was present.

If anyone knew Jermaine Reynolds or witnessed the shooting outside the RayMart on March 10, 2021, please share what you remember.