According to DNAinfo.com's Murray Weiss, the brazen and mysterious daytime assassination of Los Angeles law student Brandon Woodard was the result of a massive drug deal gone wrong.

The NYPD has made progress in its attempt to unravel the murder of Brandon Lincoln Woodard, who was shot once in the head by an unknown assailant near Columbus Circle in New York on Monday afternoon. According to the New York Times, the NYPD believes it has identified the driver of the getaway car, who easily slipped into traffic after the second suspect murdered Woodard in broad daylight.

Yesterday afternoon, on a busy street in midtown Manhattan, a law student named Brandon Woodard (above, left) was shot once in the head by an unknown assailant, who hopped into a waiting car and quickly melted into traffic. Woodard died of his wound in a nearby hospital; police are still looking for his killer and the getaway driver.