Mtundu Vanterpool, 43, was shot and killed in his Southampton home on the Shinnecock reservation in the pre-dawn hours of August 16, 2019. Earlier that day he had an altercation with Michael Gaines at a gas station in Holtsville and then returned home to sleep. Gaines later broke into the house, entered the couple’s bedroom, and shot Vanterpool three times in the abdomen. Vanterpool’s fiancée called for help and tried to render aid; Vanterpool died in her arms.

After the shooting, Gaines fled and was located two days later in North Carolina. He was returned to New York to face charges; a jury convicted him in January 2022 of murder and burglary, and he received lengthy prison terms.

Did anyone in the area remember the August 2019 confrontation at the Holtsville gas station or have information about the break-in that night?