On May 6, 2008, 15-year-old Jeffrey Zachary was talking with friends across the street from his home on Dubois Street in Newburgh, New York, when a car drove by and shots were fired. Jeffrey, a student at South Jr. High School and a member of the Zion Lions Basketball Team, was struck and taken to St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His family believes he was not the intended target; his older brother, Trent, had also been killed in a 2005 drive-by shooting.

Investigators linked the killing to members of the Newburgh Latin Kings and determined the shooting was a case of mistaken identity tied to retaliation against the rival Bloods gang. Police arrested 16-year-old Joshua Torres of Beacon and 21-year-old Daniel Correa of Newburgh, identifying Torres as the driver and Correa as the shooter. The car and the murder weapon were recovered in a parking lot on Smith Street.

A jury found Correa guilty of murder in January 2009, and an Orange County judge sentenced him on April 1, 2009, to 25 years to life. The case formed part of a larger federal indictment and an investigation called Operation Black Crown that targeted Latin Kings leadership and associates. Did anyone in the community know Jeffrey or see activity around Dubois Street that night?