On the morning of Sunday, April 13, 2025, 24-year-old Jeremy Ortega was shot twice in the chest in front of his home on Quincy Avenue in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx. Officers from the 45th Precinct responded to a 911 call just before 5 a.m., and Ortega was taken to Jacobi Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly afterward.

Ortega had moved to the neighborhood earlier in the year with his parents and two sisters. He worked as a supervisor at a recycling business and was remembered by co-workers as a smart, hardworking man. Police say no arrests have been made; they are seeking up to four male suspects seen fleeing the scene, one described wearing a black mask, a dark sweatshirt and dark gray pants, who left in a white vehicle heading westbound on Harding Avenue. The motive is unclear, and this was the third homicide in the 45th Precinct for the year.

Did anyone in Throggs Neck see the suspects or the white vehicle that morning?