Update: Charges Laid – NYPD investigate the fatal shooting of a man near a Queens Smoke Shop

The NYC 2023 Homicide Victim List is available here

NYPD responded to a shooting at 109-27 Jamaica Ave on March 18th at approximately 12:15pm.

On arrival police located an an employee, 20-year-old Daryus Clarke, with a gunshot wound to his chest. He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased.

Update: On August 6th NYPD arrested Albert Edwards, 24, and charged him with murder, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the death of Daryus Clarke.