Jonathan Diller, a 31-year-old New York Police Department officer and three-year veteran assigned to the Community Response Team, was fatally shot on the evening of March 25, 2024, in the Far Rockaway section of Queens. The encounter began around 5:50 p.m. when Diller and his partner approached a Kia Soul illegally parked at a bus stop on Mott Avenue and made contact with two men inside. A confrontation followed and one man produced a firearm, shooting Diller in the torso beneath his bullet-resistant vest. Diller was able to wrest the gun away before being rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries.

Diller’s partner returned fire, wounding the man who had shot Diller; that man and the vehicle’s driver were taken into custody and the alleged shooter was charged with first-degree murder. Diller, who was married and the father of a one-year-old son, was posthumously promoted to Detective First Grade. What information do readers have about the events on Mott Avenue that evening or the two men in the Kia Soul?