Hitman arrested for shooting reformed gang member wearing Hasidic disguise in filmed 2021 Queens murder: NYPD

Police say they have captured a Queens hitman who disguised himself in a Hasidic disguise while shooting a re-educated mobster during a shocking Queens execution caught on video in 2021.

A suspect arrested Thursday in New Jersey has been charged with murder on Sept. 6, 2021 at Ozone Park. The name of the accused shooter was not immediately released.

Victim Jermaine Dixon, a former member of the Patio Brigade in Brooklyn, had been out of federal prison for less than a year at the time of the murder.

Surveillance video from S. Conduit Avenue near 132nd Street in South Ozone Park captured what appeared to be a planned attack around 8 a.m.

Police sources said the shooter was a black man wearing a Hasidic-style hat and a long black robe. A video released by the NYPD shows the shooter near Kennedy Airport fiddling with a white sedan with the hood up, keeping his eyes on his target.

As the video shows, as Dixon, 47, approached his Ford Edge SUV, the killer ran up and shot him in the back of the head.

The video shows the shooter returning to his car, lowering the hood, and driving off down 132nd Street.

Witnesses told police that the shooter, who was wearing white gloves and a white mask, pretended to work on the machine for several hours before ambushing Dixon.

The execution cut short Dixon’s attempts to redeem himself.

The ex-con once worked with the Patio Squad, a name referring to a restaurant in Flatbush where the gang hung out.

Dixon served 19 years for drugs and the 1992 murder of Alfonso Gooden. Prosecutors said Dixon was the trigger. His brother Emil Dixon was also convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence.

Brooklyn federal court documents show that Jermaine Dixon considered working with the feds, but the deal fell through after prosecutors learned of his role in Gooden’s murder.

Facing a life sentence that was later reduced to 30 years, Dixon became a model prisoner. He received a bachelor’s degree in business and applied for a compassionate exemption.

“It is clear that I am not the young man whom your honor sentenced 20 years ago,” Dixon wrote to Judge Raymond Deary. “Now I ask your honor to take a chance with me again and allow me to re-enter society to prove to myself, my mother, children, family, and also the court that I can and will do the right thing after my release … I do not blame anyone, except for myself, for the path that I chose, which put me in my current position. “