Police are looking for three suspects, one of them wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the message “IDGAF,” in a shooting that killed two men playing dominoes on a Bronx street.
Cops released surveillance photos of the three men wanted for questioning, one of whom wore a T-shirt that reads, “IDK. IDC. IDGAF,” internet slang for “I don’t know. I don’t care. I don’t give a f—.”
The victims, Egbert Rutherford, 53, and Curtis Brown, 43, had been friends for decades after meeting in their native Jamaica, Rutherford’s grieving wife told the Daily News Saturday.
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Egbert Donovan Rutherford was fatally shot on Westchester Ave. in the Bronx on Thursday, June 18, 2026. (Courtesy of family)
“He was very nice. Nice personality. Always smiling. His family is in Jamaica,” Angelique Rutherford said of Brown. “My husband introduced him to come here. He came across.”
The two friends were part of a group playing dominoes under elevated subway tracks on Westchester Ave. near Harrod Ave. in Soundview when a fight broke out about 10:10 p.m. June 18.
More than one shooter opened fire, police sources said. The victims were shot multiple times. A police spokeswoman couldn’t say Sunday if the shooting stemmed from the game or something else.
“My husband, he’s very friendly, kind. Always giving,” Rutherford’s wife said. “He was a giving person. I wasn’t expecting him to die that way.”
She heard from people on the block someone bumped and shoved her husband, leading to an argument before the violence began, but police have not confirmed that account.
Egbert Rutherford, who went by his middle name Donovan, and his wife were together for three decades and married for 13 years. They had two adult children together.
Angelique Rutherford said she and her daughter were home, a short walk away from the murder scene, and her husband was coming back and forth, playing dominoes, doing some cooking, and heading back out again the night of the slayings.
““He played dominoes. That’s something that he played even back home,” she said.
He didn’t return, though, and a knock on the door brought tragic news.
“They come, the cops, knocking on the door. The police. They was asking for ID,” she said. She described collapsing to the ground twice after hearing the news.
She headed for the police precinct, while her daughter went to Jacobi Medical Center, where Rutherford was pronounced dead. Brown died there as well.
Neither victim had a criminal history, according to cops. No arrests have been made as cops press their search for the three suspects.
Egbert Rutherford worked as a home health aide, loved to cook, and regularly played dominoes with his friends at a nearby park, his wife recounted.
“He loved his job. He works 7 days a week. He gets up every morning, every day, watch the news, drinks his coffee,” she said. “I’m not good. Not good. I’m stressed. I’m out of words. I’ve been with him for 30 years. I can’t sleep.”
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A memorial poster for victim Curtis Brown is seen near where he was killed. (Rebecca White / New York Daily News)
Brown, she said, helped around the neighborhood as a handyman.
“Anything I want fixed, I’d say, Curtis, come fix this for me. He would never say no. Never, never,” she said. “Always agreeing. He’s a joyful person. Joyful person.”
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