On the night of September 16, 1991, a shooting at the J.I. Counters Inc. Cocktail lounge in Jamaica, Queens, left four people dead. Carmen Blanco, 33, was one of the victims killed when gunfire broke out inside the establishment; two other victims were found inside the bar and a fourth was found outside. The other deceased were later identified as Carlos El Burro Arias, 29, Juan J. Marin, 26, and Luz Analith Sepulveda, 29.

Police described a chaotic scene with multiple injured patrons and noted that two of the men recovered at the scene were clutching handguns, suggesting a violent confrontation involving several armed people. Investigators treated the incident as a complex and deadly shooting; no motive or suspect information has been made public in the years since.

Did anyone in the community have contacts or information about who was at the lounge that night or what led to the violence?