Jason Lloyd Allwood, a 33-year-old Army veteran and father of two, was fatally shot in the Bronx on March 13, 2015. According to accounts, Allwood was at a party when a fight broke out; he intervened to stop the assault on a man and left the party with a friend after believing the situation was resolved. They were pursued by a vehicle to a dead-end on Murdock Avenue, where Allwood was pistol-whipped and shot.

The attack appears to have been retaliation based on a mistaken identification after a barroom brawl on White Plains Road. A patron incorrectly told Carlos Velez that Allwood was the aggressor; Velez and an accomplice, Luis Charbonier, later ambushed him. Allwood had been on medical leave after a leukemia diagnosis, coached youth basketball, and had been planning to propose to his girlfriend the week after he was killed.

Both Velez and Charbonier were arrested and tried for the murder; in June 2018 each received lengthy prison sentences. Does anyone have additional details about Allwood’s life in the Bronx or about witnesses to the Murdock Avenue ambush?