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In the winter of 1990, the life of 43-year-old John Shelton was violently cut short in the borough of Queens, New York. On February 7th, Shelton was gunned down by a ski-masked assailant wielding an M-1 rifle outside a dry cleaners. This brazen act was not a random street crime, but a calculated execution intended to silence a key witness. Shelton was scheduled to testify against four individuals charged in a drug-related homicide that had claimed the life of his long-time girlfriend, Maxine Pet ...Read More
Victim Details

John Shelton

Male

Queens

NY

1990-02-07

43

John

Shelton

01/12/2026