Shawn Plummer was 18 when he was fatally shot while riding a bicycle near his Far Rockaway home on July 13, 2012. He was carrying another young man on the handlebars along Seagirt Boulevard when multiple gunshots rang out; one bullet struck Shawn in the forehead. Responding officers found him with the fatal wound and he was pronounced dead at a hospital.

An eyewitness described the other young man cradling Shawn and yelling that someone had killed his brother. Shawn’s mother said he was a good kid who wanted to be a mechanic and believed he was not the intended target. Detectives reportedly identified a probable suspect but investigators were hampered by a lack of cooperating witnesses; no arrests have been made and the case remains unsolved.

Three years later Shawn’s 16-year-old brother Neshawn was also shot and killed just blocks from where Shawn died. Anyone with information about either murder is asked to come forward.