On a December evening in 2016, 36-year-old Edwin Dejesus Lopez was working at AL Mini Market in Valley Stream, a store owned by his brother, when two men entered intending to rob the shop. One man, later identified as Jermaine Jackson, displayed a semi-automatic handgun and held employees at gunpoint while an accomplice tried to take money from the register. Lopez grabbed a bottle to resist; Jackson shot him once, and when Lopez pursued the fleeing men Jackson turned and shot him multiple times. Lopez was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Surveillance footage from the mini-market helped identify the shooter. In March 2017 Jermaine Jackson, a Queens Village resident, was arrested and federally charged with Lopez’s murder. Jackson initially pleaded not guilty but in December 2017 pleaded guilty to a firearm-related murder charge; in December 2018 he was sentenced to 365 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release.

Did anyone who knew Edwin or worked at AL Mini Market see or remember anything from that night that could shed more light on the events?