On April 28, 1973, ten-year-old Clifford Glover was shot and killed in South Jamaica, Queens, while walking with his stepfather, Add Armstead, on their way to Armstead’s workplace. Two plainclothes NYPD officers in an unmarked car, Thomas Shea and Walter Scott, stopped near them while investigating a taxi robbery and believed the pair matched the suspects’ descriptions. Glover and Armstead ran; Officer Shea pursued and fired three shots, one striking the 90-pound child in the back. No weapon was ever found at the scene.

Shea was indicted for second-degree murder and tried in June 1974; the jury acquitted him after less than a day of deliberations. The acquittal sparked protests and riots in South Jamaica, with dozens injured and arrested. An internal NYPD trial later found Shea and Scott guilty of wrongfully using deadly force and making false statements, and both were dismissed from the force. The city reached a civil settlement with Glover’s family.

Did anyone in the neighborhood recognize details about the officers’ unmarked car or the route Glover and his stepfather were taking that morning?