On the cold evening of February 6, 2014, in Rochester, New York, 33-year-old Jorge King-Hernandez was driving his car after dropping off a family friend. His next stop was supposed to be a local supermarket to pick up another family member. Unbeknownst to him, a vehicle carrying four individuals, one of whom was 44-year-old Juan Zenon, was following closely behind. The two vehicles came to a stop side-by-side at a traffic light on Cleveland Street.
In a sudden and violent turn of events, Zenon exited the passenger side of his vehicle and approached King-Hernandez's driver's side window.
Following a brief verbal exchange, Zenon fired three shots at King-Hernandez while he was still seated in his car. The gunshot wounds proved to be almost immediately fatal. King-Hernandez's vehicle rolled through the intersection and crashed into a fence post. By the time first responders arrived at the scene, he had already succumbed to his injuries. In the aftermath of the shooting, Zenon fled the area, eventually being apprehended in Miami, Florida.
The investigation into the death of Jorge King-Hernandez was aided by a combination of eyewitness testimony, a tip from Crime Stoppers, and available video footage from the vicinity of the crime. This evidence was crucial in building a case against Juan Zenon. In November 2015, a Monroe County jury found Zenon guilty of Murder in the Second Degree for the shooting death of King-Hernandez. He was scheduled to be sentenced in January 2016 and faced a sentence ranging from 15 years to life to 25 years to life in state prison.
