On January 11, 2016, Frankie Nieves, 50, was shot once in the chest at close range during a botched home invasion at his Peconic Street residence in South Ozone Park, Queens. He had been helping his five-year-old daughter get ready for school when two men armed with a handgun and a stun gun forced entry. Edgar Nieves, Frankie’s brother, confronted the intruders, escaped and ran for help; as he fled he heard a single gunshot from inside the home. Frankie was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

Police linked one suspect to the scene after DNA from a red hat matched Freddie Salgado, 41, in the New York State DNA Databank; security camera footage showed Salgado and an accomplice leaving in a white BMW. Salgado was captured in Miami a week after the killing, extradited to Queens, tried in April 2019 and convicted of second-degree murder, first-degree burglary, criminal possession of a weapon and second-degree assault. He was sentenced in August 2019 to 25 years to life. The other perpetrator has not been identified or apprehended.

Did anyone in the South Ozone Park area see a white BMW or other activity near Peconic Street on the morning of January 11, 2016?