On July 25, 2016, in the Mount Hope neighborhood of the Bronx, 37-year-old Jahaira Duverge was fatally shot around 5 a.m. in front of a deli on Weeks Avenue. She was with a friend, 33-year-old Beramy Garcia, when a shirtless gunman opened fire; Duverge was struck in the torso and taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she died. Garcia was shot in the head, back, and wrist and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Duverge was a mother of four. Her first husband had also been fatally shot nearly a block from where she was killed. Police initially questioned Duverge’s then-husband after he said he had left her at the deli and returned to find the aftermath; witnesses and video evidence later cleared him and he was released. Authorities recovered a revolver near the scene.

In October 2016, police arrested 37-year-old Luis Chacon of Mount Hope and charged him with two counts of murder in connection with the double homicide. Reports indicated Duverge and Garcia were acquainted but not romantically involved.