After paging Damian to no avail, and with the accident still fresh in her mind, Pam decided to check local hospitals. She found Damian at South Nassau Hospital. Rushing to his side, Pam learned he had been involved in the incident she saw earlier, but it was no traffic accident. Damian Corrente had died in a gang shooting.

In the weeks leading up to his death, Damian had returned home during winter break from college and had rekindled friendships from high school. One of those friends was Harold Zambrano, a member of a local street gang who had been jumped by members of a rival street gang known as MS-13 two days earlier. Zambrano asked Damian, who was not involved in any gang activity, to drive him around town to look for the guys who had attacked him. At a local strip mall, Harold found who he was looking for, nineteen-year-old German DeLeon. Zambrano confronted DeLeon, who indicated he was with a girlfriend and didn’t want trouble. But when two more members of the MS-13 gang stumbled onto the scene the confrontation exploded into violence.

Harold Zambrano was shot in the neck and critically injured. Damian Corrente was fatally shot five times in the head. A police investigation quickly revealed the identity of the alleged shooters: German Deleon, Mario Portillo and Juan Gil Ferrufino. But the suspects could not be found.

In the midst of almost paralyzing grief, Pam attended a police forum on gangs held at a Freeport school in reaction to Damain’s murder. During the meeting, Pam Corrente had an epiphany. She would lead the charge to rid her neighborhood of gangs. Pam and the Freeport Police Department Pam formed G.A.S.P – the Gang Awareness Suppression Program -- to bring gang awareness into the public schools and provide alternative activities for at risk kids.

Since Pam founded G.A.S.P., not one person has died from gang violence in the Freeport area. But even though Pam finds her new work rewarding, it will never take away the pain of losing her son. There is only one thing that would help – catching the alleged killers of Damian Corrente. Although police traced German Deleon, Mario Portillo and Juan Gil Ferrufino to El Salvador, they now believe the suspects may have returned to the United States, and may be hiding in Los Angeles or Miami.

Characteristics: All three suspects have brown hair and brown eyes. Both Mario Portillio and Juan Gill Ferrafino are 20-years-old and stand 5’7” tall. Both Portillio and Ferrafino have multiple tattoos on their chests. German DeLeon is 22-years-old and is 5’6” tall. He has multiple tattoos on his chest and shoulder, including an image of intermingled hearts on his chest.

If you have any information about the whereabouts of German DeLeon, Mario Portillio or Juan Gill Ferrafino, please contact the Nassau County, New York Police Department or call the Unsolved Mysteries hotline, 1-800-876-5353.