Jamel Jordan, a 34-year-old Black man, was killed on July 14, 2020, in Far Rockaway, Queens, after an afternoon dispute outside a home on Deerfield Road near Beach 29th Street turned into gunfire. The first calls came around 2 p.m.; police and medics found two men with gunshot wounds to their torsos and both were later pronounced dead at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital.

Initial investigators recovered a revolver inside the residence and treated the scene as the result of a confrontation between Jordan and a 15-year-old boy. Early accounts described both males drawing firearms and shooting at each other, while other reports said the physical evidence was consistent with a close struggle over a single gun that discharged during a tussle, striking both victims. Footage from near the scene shows a young man being led away in handcuffs shortly before 3 p.m., and police were canvassing for witnesses and surveillance video as the investigation remained open-ended.

If anyone saw what happened around Deerfield Road and Beach 29th Street that afternoon or has information about the confrontation, please share what is known.