On the morning of September 28, 2016, 38-year-old Neil Thompson was fatally shot inside a Bedford-Stuyvesant deli at the corner of Hart Street and Tompkins Avenue while buying breakfast. Surveillance footage showed a gunman enter the store and fire at Thompson multiple times; the attacker then stood over Thompson and shot him four times in the back at point-blank range. A 64-year-old bystander standing behind Thompson was also struck and suffered a non-fatal hand wound. Thompson was pronounced dead at the scene.

Trial testimony described a dispute involving a woman: the shooter had confronted his estranged girlfriend, who was in a relationship with Thompson, and was seen driving past a laundromat Thompson managed with his mother before finding him in the deli. The assailant later tried to alter his appearance by wearing glasses, a fake mustache, growing his hair, and using a cane, and was arrested on February 16, 2017. Evidence at trial included the surveillance video and text messages in which the shooter admitted his involvement.

Did anyone in Bedford-Stuyvesant know Thompson’s routine at that deli or remember seeing a suspicious vehicle near the laundromat that morning?