On the evening of January 19, 2023, 15-year-old Josue Lopez-Ortega and a 16-year-old friend were leaving a basketball game at the Police Athletic League New South Bronx Center on Longwood Avenue when an assailant approached and fired multiple shots. Josue, a Hispanic teenager remembered by neighbors as happy and kind-hearted, was struck in the head; his companion was wounded in the leg. Both were taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln, where Josue was initially listed in critical condition and later died of his injuries. The friend survived.

Investigators with the NYPD said an unidentified person was seen fleeing in a gray Jeep Renegade. Josue’s family arranged for his organs to be donated, and those donations reportedly saved seven people ranging in age from 8 months to 68 years.

Does anyone who was at the gym that night or who saw a gray Jeep Renegade in the area have information to share with investigators?