Jose Morales, 41, was fatally shot the evening of December 11, 2016, near East 175th Street and Weeks Avenue in the Bronx. The killing was tied to the Mount Hope neighborhood’s drug trade; investigators linked Morales’s death to organized narcotics activity involving crack cocaine, heroin and other drugs.

A wide federal-local takedown followed: in March 2017, 49 people were indicted in connection with two Bronx drug distribution rings, and the indictment named Morales’s murder as part of that conspiracy. Four men—James Felton, a man named Diaz, Andre Felton and an individual named Burley—were charged in Morales’s slaying; the indictment alleged the killing occurred in furtherance of a narcotics conspiracy and involved a firearm.

At trial, evidence showed James Felton shot Morales in the head. Felton was convicted in June 2019 for Morales’s murder and for the earlier killing of Marvin Harris; evidence at trial also tied Felton to a shooting that wounded Edwin Romero on the same night.

If anyone knew Morales, his movements that night, or has information about the drug crews involved, please share what is known.