The Mercedes circles back. They wanted to make sure.
On a Saturday evening in the Bronx, a black Mercedes circled a Clay Avenue intersection twice, and in those passes, a gunman ended the life of Joshua Garcia, 27, and left two others wounded. The surveillance camera recorded what the neighborhood could not prevent — a sudden, deliberate act of violence that transformed an ordinary sidewalk into a scene of chaos and grief. As police search for two suspects still at large, the footage stands as both evidence and elegy, a reminder that street violence does not announce itself before it arrives.
- A gunman leaning from the back window of a circling Mercedes fired twice into a crowd on Clay Avenue, killing Joshua Garcia, 27, and wounding two other men in the legs.
- The vehicle did not flee after the first pass — it circled the block and returned, forcing bystanders to scramble into a corner store or drop to the ground for cover.
- Surveillance video released by police captures the sequence with stark precision, giving investigators a clear visual record but so far no arrests.
- Two suspects remain at large in a city of eight million, and while the two wounded men — ages 39 and 34 — are expected to recover, Garcia was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital.
A black Mercedes circled a Bronx intersection twice on a Saturday evening, and in those two passes, a man leaning from the back window opened fire on a group of people standing on Clay Avenue near the Cross Bronx Expressway. Joshua Garcia, 27, was killed. Two other men — 39 and 34 years old — were shot in the legs and transported to Lincoln Hospital, where both are expected to recover. Garcia was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas.
Surveillance video, released by police the following day, shows the sequence with unsettling clarity. A figure in dark clothing fires from the rear window as the car approaches the intersection. Rather than fleeing, the Mercedes circles the block and returns. About five people are on the sidewalk when the shooter fires again — some run into a nearby corner store, others drop to the ground.
By Monday, police were still searching for the two people believed to have been inside the vehicle. The footage gives investigators a record of the event, but in a city of eight million, two people in a car can disappear quickly. What the video also preserves, beyond the mechanics of the shooting, is the ordinary moment that preceded it — people on a sidewalk on a weekend evening, before a circling car changed everything.
A black Mercedes circled a Bronx intersection twice on Saturday evening, and in those two passes, a man leaned from the back window and fired into a crowd. Joshua Garcia, 27, was killed. Two others were shot in the legs. The whole thing was captured on surveillance video, which police released late Sunday.
The shooting happened around 7:40 p.m. on Clay Avenue near the Cross Bronx Expressway. Garcia was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital. The two wounded men—one 39 years old, one 34—were taken to Lincoln Hospital with injuries to their right and left legs respectively. Both are expected to recover.
The video shows the sequence with brutal clarity. A figure in dark clothing leans out of the Mercedes's back window as the car pulls up to the intersection. Gunfire erupts. A man on the sidewalk ducks for cover. The Mercedes doesn't flee; instead, it circles the block and comes back. About five people are standing on the sidewalk when the shooter opens fire again. Some run into a nearby corner store. Others drop to the ground.
Police said two people were inside the Mercedes. By Monday, they were still looking for them. The vehicle itself—a black luxury sedan—would be difficult to miss, but in a city of eight million people, two people in a car can vanish quickly if they know how to move.
What the video captures, beyond the mechanics of the shooting, is the randomness of street violence. People standing on a sidewalk on a Saturday evening. A car that passes. Then chaos. The corner store becomes a refuge. The ground becomes shelter. A 27-year-old man goes to the hospital and doesn't come home. The surveillance footage, released to the public, becomes evidence and also a record—a document of the moment everything changed for three people and everyone who knew them.
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Police said two people were in the Mercedes and were looking to track them down— NYPD
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Why release the video at all? What does it accomplish?
It's a tool. Someone watching might recognize the car, the way it moved, something about the shooter's build or clothing. It puts pressure on the community to come forward. It also documents what happened—makes it real in a way a police report doesn't.
The shooter circled back. That's not panic or impulse. That's deliberate.
Yes. That's the part that stays with you. They came back. They wanted to make sure.
Do we know anything about Garcia? Who he was?
The source doesn't say. He's 27, he was on Clay Avenue at 7:40 on a Saturday night, and then he wasn't. That's all we have.
And the two men who survived—they're expected to recover, but what does that mean? Physically, maybe. But they were there. They saw it.
That's right. Recovery is a longer word than the reporting usually allows for.
The Mercedes is still out there somewhere.
As far as we know. Two people in a black car. In the Bronx. In New York. They could be anywhere by now.