On the evening of January 23, 2017, 57-year-old Ruskin Magamedov of Fair Lawn was shot and killed during a robbery at the First Avenue Gas station in Paterson, New Jersey. The attack happened around 6 p.m. at the station on 1st Avenue and McLean Boulevard; Magamedov was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center and pronounced dead. Witnesses reported seeing a man flee carrying a rifle and a gasoline canister.

The Paterson Police Department and the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office quickly identified suspects. On January 26, 2017, Dennis Barrett, 21, of Paterson, and Jorge Martinez, 21, of Garfield, were arrested and charged with first-degree felony murder, robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery, and weapons offenses. Investigators named a third suspect, 28-year-old Alex Colon, who was described as 5 feet 4 inches, 150 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes; a public appeal warned he should not be approached. Colon was arrested in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, on February 17, 2017, and held pending extradition back to Paterson.

Did anyone in the area at the time notice suspicious activity around the gas station that evening?