Jonathan Narain, 27, an off-duty corrections officer, was shot and killed in a road rage incident in Richmond Hill, Queens on September 14, 2018. Narain was driving his red Honda Accord shortly before 2 a.m. after stopping to buy food and got into a verbal dispute with a motorcyclist. At a red light at 103rd Avenue and 120th Street the motorcyclist, later identified as 30-year-old Gifford Hunter, pulled alongside Narain’s car and fired a single shot that struck Narain in the head. A city medic responding to another call found him slumped over the wheel; he was taken to Jamaica Hospital and pronounced dead.

NYPD investigators used surveillance video to identify Hunter, who was arrested two days later and charged with murder, weapons possession, and criminal use of a firearm. Hunter’s defense attorney initially said the wrong person had been arrested, noting Hunter had no criminal record and did not own a gun. The corner of 111th Street and 107th Avenue in South Richmond Hill was later co-named Correction Officer Jonathan Narain Way in his honor.

Did anyone in the neighborhood witness the dispute or the motorcycle that night?