On a late evening in June 2014, Jorge Briu, 32, was sitting in a vehicle at West 136th Street and Riverside Drive in Harlem when gunfire erupted around 11:45 p.m. Briu was struck in the neck; a second man in the car, Arnold Cobo, 21, was shot in the head. Both were taken to the hospital with critical injuries. Briu was placed on life support and died on December 24, 2014, at a Bronx hospital after complications from the earlier gunshot wound, the medical examiner ruled.

Police arrested 21-year-old Jonathan Suero on July 14, 2014, charging him initially with attempted murder, assault, and criminal possession of a weapon; after Briu’s death the charges were upgraded. Prosecutors said the shooting grew out of a dispute over money from a prior drug deal involving Cobo and that Briu was shot because he happened to be in the car at the time.

Anyone who knew Briu, Cobo, or who has information about the June 2014 shooting is asked to come forward.