On September 30, 2015, 19-year-old Seecharan Ahmad was shot and killed in the vicinity of 1529 Glover Street in the Bronx during a meeting tied to a debit card fraud scheme. Police traced arrangements for the meeting to text messages between Ahmad and Jakwon Ramos, and cell phone records placed Ramos at the scene. Surveillance from Ramos’s building showed him in an elevator after the shooting, discussing the victim’s death and his intention to discard clothing, and captured him leaving his apartment with a television and other items.

Investigators reported that a detective recorded a spontaneous oral statement by Ramos claiming the two argued, Ahmad reached for what Ramos believed was a gun, and Ramos shot in self-defense; that statement was not video-recorded. Ramos was charged with Murder in the Second Degree, Manslaughter in the First Degree, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree. At trial he testified that an altercation began after Ahmad became angry about another person being present, that he saw Ahmad pull a black metal object he thought was a gun, and that he had created a false social media alibi and disposed of clothing out of fear. A Bronx jury found Jakwon Ramos not guilty on all counts on December 18, 2018, and he was acquitted of Ahmad’s murder.

Are there details about the meeting or the scheme that anyone nearby that night can share?