He is unremarkable looking, and those who have met him say that he has a gentle demeanour. He could be spotted in churches, showing up for mass over a period of weeks, then vanishing. Throngs of young people, most of them members of the quarter's Jamaican community, danced and swayed to blaring reggae music. As a pair of uninvited guests stealthily made their way through the crowd, two young revellers, Nicholas Rodriguez and Miguel Millings, headed for the exit. They recognized the intruders as associates of a local gang that supplied drugs to dealers in neighbourhood schools.
Police suspect the young men had had words prior to the party, perhaps over drug-dealing territory.
Samuels then turned his attention to Millings and Rodriguez. Most of the shell casings at the scene were 6.35-mm, used in automatic weapons. There were also casings from a 9-mm Luger pistol. The evidence pointed to a gangland hit. The shooters disappeared and police issued a nationwide alert for the two young murderers that witnesses identified as being natives of Jamaica and gang members.