On a Saturday afternoon in Queens, 20-year-old Daryus Clarke was working at The Plug Smoke Shop on Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill when three armed individuals entered the store and robbed it of about $100 in cash and $50 in goods. As the suspects fled on March 18, 2023, one of them turned and fired a single shot that struck Clarke in the chest. Emergency crews took him to Jamaica Medical Center, where he died of his wound.

Clarke was the eldest of four children; his mother described him as a happy-go-lucky young man who loved rap music and video games. The family and the neighborhood were left shocked and mourning, and his mother questioned the safety of the growing number of smoke shops in the city. On August 6, 2023, police arrested 24-year-old Albert Edwards of the Bronx and charged him with murder, robbery, and criminal possession of a weapon. Two other suspects from the robbery remain at large and the investigation is ongoing.

Did anyone in Richmond Hill see or hear anything that afternoon that might help identify the other suspects?