On April 29, 2015, 34-year-old Jerwaine Gorman was shot and killed while sitting in the passenger seat of his Mercedes-Benz in the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens. An unknown assailant approached the vehicle in daylight and fired a single shot that struck Gorman in the chest; the woman driving the car was not harmed. Paramedics transported Gorman to a nearby hospital, where he later died.

Gorman was a husband and father of three, active in the community as a real estate entrepreneur, owner of a local ice cream parlor, co-founder of the Southeast Queens Young Democrats and a coach for the Rosedale Jets youth football team. Police say a witness saw the gunman run into a vacant house a block away; officers took four men inside that house in for questioning and recovered a gray hoodie matching the shooter description, but no arrests were announced and the initial persons of interest were released.

The Queens District Attorney’s office lists the case as an unsolved homicide. Investigators were reportedly examining Gorman’s financial and business dealings but no motive has been publicly established. Anyone with information about the shooting or Gorman’s movements that afternoon is asked to come forward.