A daytime drive ended in a sudden, public ambush for 26-year-old Nair Vives of Queens on November 20, 2020. Vives was in the front passenger seat of a Nissan Maxima on Rockaway Boulevard near John F. Kennedy International Airport when another vehicle drew alongside and opened fire. Shell casings were recovered at the scene.

The driver and Vives were hit; the driver lost control, crossed into oncoming lanes, struck a fence and overturned into marshy weeds. Both front-seat victims were taken to hospital and pronounced dead. Police later identified the second victim as Angel Caraballo and said the two men were stepbrothers. A woman and a young child in the rear were not shot but were injured in the crash.

Investigators noted gang affiliations for both victims and said the driver had recently been released from prison on a gun possession case and was on parole. Detectives searched for nearby surveillance footage but, in initial reports, no arrests or suspect descriptions were released.

Did anyone in the area see vehicles or footage from Rockaway Boulevard that morning?