On the evening of December 3, 2023, Jazeke Samuels, 30, was working inside Legend’s Exotic Candy Shop on West 142nd Street in Harlem when a person wearing a hoodie entered the smoke shop and opened fire at about 6:00 p.m. Samuels was struck multiple times and taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The New York Police Department opened a homicide investigation; the shooter fled before officers arrived and no motive was reported in initial accounts.

If anyone was in or near the shop that evening or has information about the person in the hoodie, please come forward to assist the investigation.