Oscar Alfredo Ventura Granados was 43 when he was shot and killed outside his Mineola home on Roslyn Road on the evening of Sunday, January 11, 2015. He had just stepped out of a taxi at about 9:36 p.m. when an unknown assailant confronted him. A brother who witnessed the incident from a nearby window saw the assailant demand money and then fire a fatal shot; Granados was pronounced dead six minutes later.

Officers found Granados’s wallet, money, and cellphone on his person, so investigators treated the killing as targeted rather than a simple robbery. Detectives followed several lines of inquiry, including a family tip that Granados sometimes visited casinos and might have been targeted over gambling winnings; a composite sketch and surveillance video of the suspect were released in March 2015 and a reward was offered. No arrest has been announced and the case remains unsolved.

If anyone in Mineola that night remembers seeing a man near Roslyn Road or has information about Granados’s movements before he returned home, please come forward.