On the evening of May 12, 2020, a confrontation between two lifelong friends in Farmingdale, New York, ended with Christopher Curro shot dead. Curro, 25, and Errick Allen, then a 28-year-old off-duty rookie NYPD officer, had grown up near one another and remained close into adulthood. A string of angry text messages over a perceived breach of trust prompted the men to meet in a wooded area on Langdon Road to settle their dispute.

Shortly after 8:00 p.m., Allen shot Curro five times at close range with his service weapon, including two shots to the head; Curro was unarmed. Allen initially fled, then returned about 30 minutes later and said he had shot Curro in self-defense. Allen was suspended and later fired from the NYPD. A grand jury indicted him on second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter in August 2021; prosecutors described the killing as execution style while the defense said Curro was the aggressor.

The trial concluded in March 2024 with a Nassau County jury acquitting Allen of murder and manslaughter and convicting him of misdemeanor menacing; his family called the verdict devastating, saying Curro used only words during the confrontation.

Did anyone who knew Christopher or who was in Farmingdale that night see or hear anything that could shed light on what happened?