On a late Thursday evening in September 2018, 42-year-old Orville Scott was found unconscious in a red Honda Accord that had crashed into a light pole at the intersection of 249th Street and 144th Avenue in the Rosedale section of Queens. Responders discovered he had sustained a gunshot wound to the head; he was taken to Jamaica Hospital and pronounced dead. Investigators said the shooting appeared to have occurred before the crash.

Authorities reported a gray four-door sedan as a possible vehicle used by the suspect or suspects who fled the scene. The killing of Scott was one of two strikingly similar homicides in Queens that same night; hours later a 27-year-old off-duty corrections officer was also found shot in the head in his red Honda Accord elsewhere in the borough. There have been no public announcements of an arrest or an identified suspect in Scott’s death.

If anyone knew Orville Scott, saw either red Honda Accord that night, or has information about a gray four-door sedan seen near 249th Street and 144th Avenue, please come forward.