On a January night in 2020 in the Prospect Gardens area of Spring Valley, New York, 28-year-old Juvenson Paul was found inside a car that had crashed into a townhouse. Police determined Paul had died from a gunshot wound, turning an apparent traffic accident into a homicide investigation. The Spring Valley Police Department worked the case, but for about a year and a half the investigation stalled amid limited evidence and witnesses.

Detectives continued to gather physical and electronic evidence and conduct interviews. Their work eventually identified a suspect who was already in custody on unrelated weapons charges; a Rockland County Grand Jury later returned an indictment in February 2022 charging the suspect with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with Paul’s death. What details about motive or circumstances leading to the shooting remain unclear.