Jeffrey Roork was 26 when he was killed in an elevator in Manhattan on June 19, 1995. That afternoon a man later identified as Darnell Collins, also known as Mwanza Atiba Kamau, entered an elevator at 138 West 25th Street with Roork and architect David Roth and shot both men in the head as the car descended. Roork died instantly; Roth was gravely wounded.

Earlier that day Collins had committed a fatal shooting in a nearby parking lot and was moving through New Jersey and New York in a multiday spree of robberies and shootings. Investigators believed the elevator shootings were intended to leave no witnesses who could identify him. Two days later Collins was located in New Jersey, engaged officers in a vehicle chase and gunfire, and was shot and later died at a hospital, leaving no criminal trial for Roork’s killing.

Did anyone who knew Roork or worked in that building have details about his life or that day to share?