On June 16, 2024, at about 2:26 a.m., 30-year-old Jamar Mack was shot in the 4100 block of South Salina Street near the Valley Plaza in Syracuse, New York. Officers who responded to a shots-fired call found Mack with gunshot wounds; he was taken to University Hospital and pronounced dead. A 34-year-old man arrived at Crouse Hospital shortly afterward with non-life-threatening gunshot injuries believed to be connected to the same incident and was expected to survive.

Mack was a graduate of Corcoran High School’s class of 2011, a father to a daughter and a son, and a youth football coach for the Salt City Renegades, where he was described as a father figure to many of the players. His death contributed to a record-breaking number of homicides in Syracuse for June 2024. The Syracuse Police Department has not publicly identified any suspects and urges anyone with information to come forward.

Did anyone in the Syracuse community know Jamar or see anything on the night of June 16 that could help the investigation?