Kei Sunada was 22 and living in the LeFrak City apartment complex in Queens when he was shot on the landing of a fourth-floor stairwell on the night of August 4, 1994. He died of his wound three days later. Early investigation led to the arrest of two local teenagers, Armond McCloud, 20, and Reginald Cameron, 19, four days after the shooting. Their arrests rested on a statement from another teenager in an unrelated robbery case and on confessions obtained after hours of interrogation without legal counsel. A third person named in the confessions was Kendo MacDonald, but prosecution focused on McCloud and Cameron.

McCloud was convicted of murder in 1996 and sentenced to 25 years to life; Cameron pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery and received just over eight years before parole. A later reinvestigation by the Queens District Attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit found the confessions unreliable and tied to a detective with a known history of eliciting false confessions. A crime-scene reconstruction showed the shooting could only have happened on the stairwell landing where Sunada’s body was found, contradicting confession details that placed the crime in the hallway. McCloud and Cameron were exonerated in August 2023 and their convictions vacated. The person who shot Kei Sunada has not been identified.

Did anyone in LeFrak City in August 1994 see or hear anything that could finally identify the shooter?