A late summer traffic dispute in the Bronx turned deadly for Fausto Garcia Rodriguez. The 40-year-old father of four, of Dominican descent, was involved in a fender bender on the Cross Bronx Expressway on August 25, 2023. After the initial collision the other vehicle’s occupants fled, but one returned with an accomplice in a different car, a gray Toyota RAV4. An argument with the two men escalated and one of them shot Garcia Rodriguez. He was taken to a local hospital and later died of his injuries.

The NYPD located the gray Toyota RAV4 and interviewed its driver, who said he did not know a shooting was going to occur. No arrests have been announced and the shooter has not been publicly identified; the investigation remains open. If anyone was a witness to the collision or the men who returned in the RAV4, please come forward with information.