Albert Garland was 56 when he was shot and killed inside his poultry market on Delancey Street on August 22, 1983. He had commuted from Long Beach to the city for work, routinely spending more than three hours a day on the road. The owner of a nearby auto body shop discovered the scene and contacted Garland’s family; his wife and son arrived to find homicide detectives already there.

Garland was found on the market floor with a gunshot wound in the back. Investigators initially suspected a robbery that went wrong, but the inquiry ran into problems early on: the case suffered from a lack of witnesses and concrete evidence. No suspects were publicly identified and no arrests were made, and the investigation later went cold.

The family has continued to seek answers while the identity of the killer and the motive remain unknown. Does anyone with knowledge of Delancey Street businesses or that neighborhood in 1983 have information that could help this cold case?