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On the afternoon of June 17, 2017, 46-year-old Keith Vereen was shot and killed while pumping gas at a BP station at Atlantic and Utica Avenues in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Surveillance video showed a man approach Vereen, press a gun to his chest and fire once; a second man then fled with the shooter in a silver Infiniti. Vereen was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

Investigators recovered a cell phone the shooter dropped at the scene and obtained DNA from it that identified 31-year-old Andre Rodriguez of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Police released images of the two men after the attack. Rodriguez was arrested and charged with Vereen’s murder; prosecutors relied on the surveillance footage and the DNA evidence at trial.

On January 28, 2019, a jury found Rodriguez guilty of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and on February 21, 2019, he received a sentence of 21 years to life. Motive remained unclear, with initial police suggestions that it might have been a botched robbery.

Did anyone in Crown Heights recognize the silver Infiniti or the men captured on the station’s cameras?