On the early morning of July 4, 1993, 27-year-old Police Officer Rudolph P. Thomas Jr. was shot dead outside a Brooklyn deli on Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York. He and his girlfriend had been celebrating the fourth anniversary of their first date and Thomas was waiting on his new motorcycle when two men approached. One produced a firearm and demanded the motorcycle. Thomas raised his hands and identified himself as a police officer; as he began to dismount the motorcycle the gunman fired one fatal shot to his head.

The assailants attempted to take the motorcycle but were unable to start it and ran off on foot. Thomas had served with the New York City Housing Authority Police Department for just over two and a half years and was pronounced dead at the scene. A suspect was arrested days later, charged with felony murder, convicted, and received a 25-years-to-life sentence; that person was paroled in 2022.

Did anyone in the Brooklyn area at the time remember unusual activity near Pennsylvania Avenue that morning or have information about the people seen with the motorcycle?