Jit Mongar, 38, a man from Rochester, New York, stepped out late on July 19, 2015 for something ordinary—stopping at a convenience store on Lake Avenue—before the night turned violent. He was a refugee from Nepal, trying to build a steady life for his wife and seven children after resettling in the United States.
Investigators later said the attack unfolded outside the store as Mongar was getting back into his car.
A group confronted him in what prosecutors described as an attempted robbery and car theft, and a struggle broke out at the vehicle. In the chaos, he was shot at close range and rushed toward medical help, but he was pronounced dead when he arrived at the hospital.
In the months that followed, police focused on three teenagers. Court filings and later reporting described a coordinated attempt to steal Mongar’s car: one teen climbed into the backseat while the others moved in at the driver’s side, and the confrontation ended with Mongar being shot. The alleged shooter was identified in court accounts as Kahlil Nelson, with Kamron Campbell and Le’Sean Foucha accused as co-defendants in the attempted robbery that preceded the killing.
By late 2015, arrests and court appearances began to map out the case in public. Foucha was arraigned on a second-degree murder charge, and prosecutors ultimately pursued the trio together—describing the killing as a robbery attempt that escalated into murder outside the Lake Avenue store.
The case ended not with a trial, but with a sequence of guilty pleas. Nelson pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and a robbery charge and was sentenced as a juvenile offender to seven years to life; reporting noted he apologized in court to the family. Foucha accepted a plea and received 15 years to life for his role. Campbell later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, attempted first-degree robbery, and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and court records reflect his judgment of conviction was entered on October 12, 2016.
