On the night of December 26, 2023, 28-year-old Clarisa Burgos of Brooklyn was seated in the passenger seat of a black Honda sedan in Richmond Hill, Queens, when gunmen opened fire and fatally shot her in the head. The driver, her 39-year-old boyfriend, was shot multiple times but managed to drive to the 103rd Precinct station house; Burgos was pronounced dead at the scene and the driver was taken to a hospital in stable condition.

Surveillance footage shows three assailants approach the parked car near 127th Street and Liberty Avenue and fire numerous rounds into the vehicle. Investigators recovered 16 shell casings. Authorities say the attack was a misdirected murder-for-hire plot: the intended target was the driver, and federal prosecutors identified alleged mastermind Dajahn Jeezy Mula McBean, then incarcerated, as having orchestrated the hit from jail using a contraband cellphone after a social media dispute. Karl Pacavell Smith and Chelsey Ms. Chinn Harris were charged for helping lure the intended target; another person, Julissa Bartholomew, was also charged.

This was reportedly a second attempt on the man’s life, with a prior shooting two days earlier outside another Queens nightclub. Does anyone have information about the ambush near 127th Street and Liberty Avenue or saw activity in that area that night?