On July 9, 2007, a routine traffic stop in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, turned deadly when officers Russel Timoshenko, 23, and his partner Herman Yan signaled a BMW to pull over after its license plate did not match the vehicle. As the officers approached, gunfire came from the car. Timoshenko was hit in the face and neck and sustained catastrophic injuries; Yan was struck in the arm and chest but survived, his ballistic vest preventing a fatal wound.

Detectives nearby rushed Timoshenko to Kings County Hospital, where he remained unconscious and died on July 14, 2007.Two days after the shooting, the BMW’s occupants were identified as Dexter Bostic, Robert Ellis, and Lee Woods and were arrested after a multi-state manhunt. Prosecutors charged them in connection with the killing; later trials led to convictions for aggravated murder for Dexter Bostic and Lee Woods and a weapons conviction for Robert Ellis.

Timoshenko had immigrated from Belarus with his family and had been on the NYPD for just over a year when he was killed.Has anyone in Crown Heights or the NYPD community documented seeing the BMW or the suspects that night?