NEW YORK – NYPD is searching for a suspect seen on surveillance video disguised in traditional Jewish clothing as he waits for a man and then shoots him in the back of the head as he got into his car in Queens.
On Thursday, authorities identified the victim as Jermaine Dixon, 46. They said he was killed shortly before 8 a.m. Monday on South Conduit Avenue.
Video posted by police on social media shows the suspect wearing a face mask and covered by a long black robe, similar to traditional Hasidic clothing, standing next to a parked car pretending to work with the hood raised. As Dixon approaches his car across the street and begins to enter, the suspect runs up and shoots him before getting into the vehicle he was allegedly fixing and hitting the road.
Detectives working on the case said Dixon had stayed at a nearby Comfort Inn hotel. Sources told our sister station NBC New York that Dixon constantly looked behind him as he moved through the neighborhood. Detectives said that every time Dixon walked to his rental car, he looked around, almost knowing he was being watched.
The sources said they are investigating the possibility that the person who shot and killed Dixon believed he was cooperating with the government against other co-defendants.
The Daily News reported that Dixon was a former gang member who had been released from federal prison less than a year ago, after serving two decades in connection with a 1992 murder.
– .
