Walter Ross, a 33-year-old Black man, was killed in broad daylight on September 12, 2016, after gunfire struck a car stopped on North Clinton Avenue near Burbank Street in Rochester, New York. Police said Ross was shot while inside the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene; the driver was hit in the leg or lower body, treated at a hospital, and released. In the hours after the shooting investigators described the attack as targeted rather than random, but there was no immediate public suspect identified at the time and witnesses and neighbors were left shaken.

Federal prosecutors later connected the killing to a Rochester drug-trafficking organization and described the shooting as an enforcement-style hit tied to turf and rivalry. Court filings say Jonathan Cruz-Carmona approached the car, fired several shots through the window, and killed Ross; prosecutors said the group’s leader, Carlos Javier Figueroa, provided the 9mm handgun used in the killing. Cruz-Carmona pleaded guilty to murder with a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime and was sentenced in federal court; Figueroa was later convicted on related charges.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see the car or the shooter around Clinton Avenue and Burbank Street that afternoon?