The federal government is offering a reward of up to $5 million. for information related to a unsolved homicide of Shakeel Khan, occurred in Johnson City, Broome County New York, seven years ago.
The night of March 30, 2019 Khan, a native of Pakistan, was shot dead by a masked attacker in front of his restaurant, “Halal Bites” in Riverside Force, while he was closing the establishment, around 10 p.m. His friends reported that Khan had moved to the area from Brooklyn two years earlier in order to start his business and provide a better life for his family.
“Khan was murdered execution style in front of his business,” according to the FBI. At the time of his death, he was a proper resident of the United States and “openly participated in political activities in opposition to terrorist organizations in Pakistan”according to Reveal of The United States.
Later that same year the FBI announced a first reward $50,000 for any information leading to an arrest. The reason why the amount of the agency’s offer was now increased so drastically has not been made known, he said. PIX11 Files. The increase is offered by the Rewards for Justice program of the Department of State, which is administered by the Diplomatic Security Service.
The FBI, the Johnson City police – locality located 179 miles northwest of new york city– and the New York State Police (NYSP) continue to investigate the crime. Anyone with information about this case should consult this official page.
Long police mysteries in New York and nearby areas
This week Kevin Gavin, a 71-year-old man, pleaded guilty to having killed three elderly women who were his neighbors in a public housing building (NYCHA) in Brooklyn between 2015 and 2021 Additionally, Robert McCaffrey was arrested in North Carolina in connection with the homicide of Lisa Marie McBride that occurred 36 years ago in New Jersey.
Earlier this month Rex Heuermann, ‘the Gilgo Seaside killer’, surprised by pleading guilty to the deaths of 8 women whose bodies had been found along Ocean Parkway in Lengthy Island (NY) between 1993 and 2010. In parallel, Shannan Gilbert disappeared in May 2010, triggering the search that led to the discovery of many human remains; However, Heuermann has not been charged in that case.
Also recently William Antonio Solís was arrested in Florida as a suspect in the double homicide – an unsolved case since 1993.– of a man and woman who were gunned down in an apartment in the Bronx, just steps from their 3-year-old son.
In addition, it was determined that Pedro Hernández will be tried again in the case of Etan Patz, a child who disappeared in The NY (NYC) in 1979 and was declared dead in 2001, although his body has never been found. Last month Joseph Martínez, alias “Jupiter Joe”, was sentenced in The Bronx (NYC) to a sentence of between 25 years and life in prison for the murder and rape of a girl in the winter of 1999. Also in March, the FBI identified 56 years later a man who was found headless and handsless on a road in Andover (NY) on March 20, 1970; but no one has been arrested in the case.
The girl Bianca Lebron has been missing for more than 24 years, last seen in the facilities of the former “Elias Howe Faculty” in Bridgeport (Connecticut) at 8:30 am on November 7, 2001. A reward of $62,000 is being offered for information related to the case.
In December Andrew Dykes was arrested near Tampa (Florida) as a suspect in the 1997 death of Tanya Jackson and her daughter Tatiana Dykes, whose bodies were found on a beach on Lengthy Island (NY), but were not identified until 2025.
In the fall of last year, the remains of Susan “Suzy” Mann, a fifteen-year-old who lived in Queens (NYC), disappeared in May 1980 and was found dead in a garbage container on Lengthy Island (NY) in November 1982. But in so long no one has been charged with the crime. Authorities are offering a $25,000 reward for tips leading to an arrest.
In November 2025, thanks to DNA technological advances, the police accused a man 28 years later of having murdered an elderly woman and raped another when both were patients at the same mental health center in Lengthy Island (NY). In October, Michael Benjamin was extradited from the state of Georgia to face charges in Queens (NYC) as a suspect of having abused five women in the 1990s.
In July, a car rescued from the water with human remains inside on Lengthy Island (NY) ended a long investigation into Robert Lengthy, a 62-year-old person reported missing in 2011. In March 2025, half a century after the disappearance of the girl Laura Ann O’Malley in Queens (NYC), authorities confirmed that her remains were found on the other side of the country, in California. In 2024, a case that had been open for almost 39 years was also closed in New Jersey: the newborn girl found dead in a bag in a park on Christmas Eve in 1984.
Also for more than six years he has been Missing girl of Mexican origin Dulce María Alavez, last seen in a park in New Jersey when he was 5 years old, in September 2019. No one has been identified as a suspect or arrested in the case. The reward was progressively raised and at the moment it remains in $75,000 dollars.
Henryk Siwiak, an immigrant from Poland, died on September 11, 2001 in New York, but not as a victim of the terrorist attacks, but rather shot in Brooklyn. The case remains open.
Anyone with information about these cases should call at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the website crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential. If you are a victim or suspect that someone is being abused, especially if it is a minor or elderly:
Seek help
- Call 911, 988 or to (800)-942-6906.
- Send the text “WELL” to 65173.
- National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) and www.thehotline.org
- Review information at https://nycwell.cityofnewyork.us/es/ https://988lifeline.org/es/inicio/ https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c87g2n139e9o