A verbal dispute outside a Belmont bodega escalated into fatal violence on the evening of February 17, 2025. Neighbour Emilio Rosas, 56, who lived next door to the deli at the corner of East 187th Street and Crotona Avenue, was found on the pavement after a gunshot to the chest at about 6:21 p.m. He was taken to Saint Barnabas Hospital and pronounced dead.

The New York Police Department’s 48th Precinct arrested two people the next day. Authorities charged 62-year-old Tony Harris with second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon. They charged 35-year-old Shantelle Degout with first-degree manslaughter and first- and second-degree assault. The altercation outside the bodega remains central to investigators’ reconstruction of what happened.

Did anyone in Belmont see or hear the dispute outside that deli on February 17?