On the morning of November 25, 2019, Jose Leonardo Sanchez, 33, was found on Burnett Street in Hempstead with a fatal gunshot wound. Police were alerted by a ShotSpotter notification and discovered him about 2:25 a.m. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.

Police later said Sanchez had been asleep in his car when he was targeted in what investigators described as a robbery gone wrong. Authorities allege two men encountered him, attempted to rob him and fled with his two cellphones after one of the men shot Sanchez when he resisted.

In February 2020 authorities arrested two men, identified as 26-year-old Kadeem Lewis of Hempstead and 33-year-old Richard Ford, then charged them with second-degree murder; Lewis was also charged with a parole violation. Anyone with information about what happened that night or who saw activity on Burnett Street is asked to come forward.