Wayne Cherry, 36, of Brentwood, was found dead in the backyard of an unoccupied house on Udall Road in Baywood on a Sunday morning in June 2020. Authorities reported Cherry had sustained a wound to his head and determined his death to be criminal in nature.

According to a federal indictment unsealed in early 2024, the charging document alleges Cherry was shot in the head in that same backyard on the evening of June 12, 2020. The superseding indictment is part of a broader federal and state probe into the Bloods street gang on Long Island and includes racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, and multiple firearms and narcotics counts alongside the murder charge. At the time the indictment was unsealed, the defendant named in the indictment, Dwayne Murray, was already in custody and awaiting arraignment on the new charges.

Are there readers who knew Wayne Cherry or who have information about what happened on June 12, 2020?