In the summer of 2018 a dispute in a Port Jefferson pool hall ended in deadly violence. Albert Luis Lopez Rodriguez, 27, was shot and killed on July 22 inside Billiards DBM on Main Street after an argument with an acquaintance, 36-year-old Alejandro Vargas-Diaz, escalated. Lopez Rodriguez, a father of three from Selden, died at the scene.

After the shooting Vargas-Diaz fled the state. The 9 mm pistol believed used in the killing was found a month later hidden in a tree along the Setauket Port Jefferson Greenway Trail. Investigators say Vargas-Diaz had known ties to Brooklyn, Queens and areas of New Jersey and Connecticut, and authorities searched for him in multiple locations including the Dominican Republic.

Does anyone have information about Lopez Rodriguez’s life in Selden or contacts who might remember him?