On the morning of November 4, 2020, 31-year-old Jamel Smith was shot and killed near West 112th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem. Smith had stopped to speak with a woman across from a supermarket when a man approached and fired multiple shots into his head and neck. First responders said the wounds were catastrophic; medics took him to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, where he died of his injuries.

Witnesses described the shooter as a man in his 30s wearing a grey jacket and black pants who fled on foot. Surveillance footage placed 44-year-old Andrew Paige of Charlottesville, Virginia, at the scene, and investigators say Paige and Smith were acquainted and moved in the same local social circles. The NYPD, with assistance from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, located and arrested Paige in Virginia and extradited him to New York to face murder charges.

Smith’s sister, Egypt Smith, remembered him as a kind, protective presence in the neighborhood. Does anyone who knew Jamel or who was in that area on November 4 have information that could shed light on what led to the shooting?