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On the morning of July 23, 2015, 40-year-old Luis Garcia was shot in the head on Westchester Avenue near East 152nd Street in the Melrose section of the Bronx. The attack occurred about 8:40 a.m.; surveillance video shows a man approach Garcia from behind, take aim and fire. Garcia was found unconscious two blocks from his home, taken to Lincoln Hospital and pronounced dead.

Investigators initially sought help identifying the shooter seen wearing dark shorts, a black and grey shirt and a black hat. Months later an arrest was made naming Unique Woodfin of Harlem as the shooter. Authorities said the slaying grew out of a dispute a month earlier involving Garcia and an associate of Woodfin’s, Florencio Pinos, whom Garcia had menaced with a gun and from whom a vehicle had been stolen; Pinos later died of an illness in 2017 and had been a co-defendant.

If anyone remembers the July 23, 2015 shooting or saw activity in the Melrose area that morning, please share what was seen or heard.