NyJawaun Thomas, 21, was killed on June 24, 2020, in Albany, New York. After a brief car chase, Thomas emerged from the wreckage of a rented U-Haul near South Pearl Street and Morton Avenue — just steps from a police station — and was shot. Authorities say the shooter, Jarrell Howard, circled back and fired again, though investigators believed Thomas was already dead by that second volley.

Howard, then 17 and on probation for a 2019 shooting that wounded a 3-year-old, was linked to an uptown faction in a long-running feud between uptown and downtown groups. He was arrested and later pleaded guilty in December 2022 to second-degree murder in Thomas’s death and to three counts of second-degree attempted murder for other shootings that month. In May 2023 he received a combined 52 years to life when the new 37-years-to-life term was ordered to run consecutively to an earlier 15-year sentence. The court heard emotional testimony from Thomas’s family, including a letter from his mother expressing profound grief.

Did anyone in the area witness the chase or the shooting near South Pearl and Morton Avenue?