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On Tuesday night, March 5, 2019, 26-year-old Jorge Vasquez was shot and killed while riding as a passenger in an Uber on Bedford Avenue near Greene Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Vasquez, a resident of nearby Halsey Street, was struck in the neck and chest after a person on a bicycle opened the rear car door and fired; the back window was blown out and a stray bullet lodged in a car across the street. He was taken to Brooklyn Hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. The Uber driver was physically unharmed. A bouquet of flowers was found in the back of the vehicle.

The NYPD opened an investigation and released only a vague description of the shooter. Authorities did not publicly announce any arrests or identifications of suspects, and it is not clear whether the attack was targeted or random. The shooting was one of 99 homicides recorded in Brooklyn in 2019 and prompted fear among neighborhood residents.

Did anyone in Bedford-Stuyvesant who was near Bedford and Greene Avenues that night or who remembers seeing a bicyclist in the area come forward with information?