A workplace dispute at a Glen Head auto repair shop in the summer of 2018 ended with the death of 35-year-old mechanic Bashir ’Bobby’ Ward. On August 3, 2018, an argument over gas station receipts involved coworker Lawrence Grammer; Ward intervened and pushed Grammer to the ground. The next day, August 4, while Ward was working on a customer’s Jeep, Grammer retrieved a gun from his vehicle, approached Ward and shot him once in the back of the head at close range.

After the shooting Grammer briefly left, then called 911 and said he had killed someone and that the weapon was in the seat of a Toyota. He returned a few minutes later and was arrested; a gun was found in a Toyota Rav4 registered to his son. Grammer, 71 at the time, was charged with second degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and was later found guilty by a jury.