Albert Kotlyar, 32, a Ukrainian immigrant working nights at the Laundry King on Atlantic Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, was shot and killed at the counter in the first light of March 10, 2003. He was found with a single close-range gunshot wound; cash and register money remained at the scene, suggesting the encounter did not resemble a typical robbery. A shell casing and security video indicated the shooter entered alone, used the restroom, then approached the counter. Investigators collected items from outside, including a discarded coffee cup, seeking prints or DNA.

Detectives linked this killing to a pattern of early-morning attacks on lone clerks and shopkeepers, often involving head or face shots and a 40-caliber handgun. The case became part of a serial-shooting investigation; Larme Price was arrested at the end of March, later admitting to multiple shootings and pleading guilty to five shootings in February–March 2003, including four killings. Kotlyar’s family and co-workers were left with the certainty of a conviction but not a motive that makes sense to them.

Did anyone who knew Albert or who worked nights in that neighborhood around March 2003 see anything that could still help clarify what happened?