On the afternoon of July 1, 2024, 29-year-old Cristian Alvarado of Pomona was shot multiple times while seated in his car near Fairmount Avenue and West Street in Haverstraw, New York. The force of the gunfire caused him to lose control and his vehicle struck a parked car. First responders found him wounded beside the vehicle; he was taken to Nyack Hospital and pronounced dead.

Investigators say the shooting grew out of a prior altercation between Alvarado and 18-year-old Yandie Martinez. Surveillance footage reportedly captured their interaction before Martinez allegedly approached Alvarado’s car as he attempted to drive away and fired several rounds. Martinez fled, prompting a multi-state search that tracked him to an Airbnb in Piedmont, South Carolina, where Greenville County deputies arrested him on July 29, 2024.

Martinez was extradited to Rockland County and charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon; he pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail. Prosecutors say he changed clothes, swapped phones, created new social accounts, and shaved his head while trying to avoid capture, and that a warrant had been issued days earlier for absconding from a juvenile detention center. The victim’s mother said Alvarado was a husband and father of two and had been in the area to see his son that day.

Did anyone in Haverstraw or Pomona see Alvarado or the two men together before July 1?