Bubacarr Camara was a 26-year-old immigrant from Gambia who was killed during an apparent robbery at the BNC T-shirt shop on Amsterdam Avenue on June 18, 2015. Police found Camara inside the store with severe head trauma; he was taken to a hospital and later died of his injuries. The death deeply affected the Upper West Side community that knew him as a friendly, hardworking shopkeeper.

Investigators linked three men to the case: brothers Michael and Stephen Adams and a man named Zubearu Bettis. Prosecutors said the men entered the shop intending to rob it and that violence during the robbery resulted in Camara’s death. Authorities also connected Stephen Adams and Zubearu Bettis to an armed robbery two days earlier in Harlem in which a gun was displayed and fired.

In 2016 both Michael and Stephen Adams pleaded guilty to charges tied to the robbery and murder; Bettis was scheduled to go to trial in May 2016. Does anyone have memories of Bubacarr or information about the case to share?