On the evening of August 15, 2017, 21-year-old Teriana Holcombe was shot near the corner of 198th Street and Murdock Avenue in the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens. The shooting occurred just before 9:30 p.m. after an argument reignited between two groups; earlier that day a friend of Holcombe’s had been involved in a physical altercation. A man produced a handgun and fired multiple shots, and one bullet struck Holcombe in the head. She was taken to Jamaica Hospital and pronounced dead. The shooting happened about ten blocks from her home.

Holcombe worked as a camp counselor and later a division head at the Young People’s Day Camp of Queens, where campers, parents, and staff remembered her as bright and caring. Ten days after the killing, 34-year-old Jonel Lattore turned himself in and was charged with murder, criminal possession of a weapon, and reckless endangerment. Reports say he was part of the group involved in the ongoing dispute that led to the shooting.

Was anyone in the neighborhood that night able to see or hear anything that could shed more light on what sparked the confrontation?