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On the evening of July 11, 2019, 31-year-old Richard Cepeda was killed in the Bronx during an encounter police believe began as a drug deal. Surveillance footage from a building at Field Place and Grand Concourse shows Cepeda talking with two men in the lobby when one, wearing a gold-and-black du-rag, drew a handgun. Cepeda was forced from a blue lawn chair into a vestibule, tried to flee, was blocked by a second man who assaulted him, and then was shot in the back on the sidewalk. He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital and pronounced dead.

The NYPD described the shooter as a Black man with a dark complexion, wearing a black and yellow du-rag, white t-shirt, blue jeans, and black-and-white sneakers. The second man was described as a Black man with a dark complexion in a light-colored baseball cap, white t-shirt, black-and-white sweatpants, and dark sneakers. One suspect was later identified as 22-year-old William Yeaden, who was apprehended in Florida on October 22, 2019, and extradited to New York.

Did anyone in the community see or recognize the men from the surveillance footage, or have information about the incident?