Hershy Schwartz, 39, of North Miami Beach, Florida, was found shot to death in the parking lot of the Wendy’s at 25 NE 167th St. on February 19, 2023. He was discovered near his car at about 8:30 a.m., wearing the same clothes seen on surveillance earlier that morning and the night before. Cameras captured him looking at his phone in his car shortly before 3:10 a.m. on February 18 and returning to his car around 4:30 a.m. on the day he died. His vehicle had been ransacked and his wallet, firearm, and phone were missing, and investigators have described the death as likely the result of an attempted armed carjacking gone wrong.

On May 18, 2023, 23-year-old Louis Antuwn Redmon of Jacksonville was arrested in connection with the case; an arrest warrant says video shows Redmon looking into Schwartz’s SUV, opening a door, struggling with him, then backing away and shooting him. Cell phone records and texts from Schwartz’s phone tied activity after the shooting to numbers linked to Redmon’s current or former girlfriend and her son; the warrant notes Redmon sometimes borrowed others’ phones to place calls. Schwartz was an Orthodox Jewish community member who worked as a heavy machinery operator and volunteered with Chaverim of South Florida and Chesed Shel Emes.

Anyone who knew Hershy or has information about what happened is asked to come forward.