On the night of September 10, 2024, gunfire rang out on East Burnside Avenue near Jerome Avenue outside a moped and scooter shop called Speed Racer Imports. Juan Lluverez, 35, was found in the street with two gunshot wounds, to the abdomen and to the leg; paramedics transported him to Saint Barnabas Hospital, where he died. Officers recovered shell casings at the scene.

Early accounts say a masked gunman approached on a bicycle and fired three times, with one round reportedly missing. Witness reports and police descriptions list the suspect in a black hooded sweatshirt and a black ski mask, fleeing eastbound on East Burnside—one report saying the rider headed toward East 181st Street—and surveillance video was recovered and being reviewed. No arrests had been announced and police described the motive as unknown.

A funeral notice identified him as Juan Gabriel Lluverez, born in the Bronx on December 17, 1988; relatives said he lived nearby, worked at two Bronx convenience stores, and had been out for a haircut before he was killed. Did anyone in the area see a masked cyclist or notice anything unusual on East Burnside that night?