David Esequel Avelar was killed in the early morning hours of February 24, 2013, after a night of partying in College Park, Maryland. At about 4:00 a.m. police responded to a shooting in the 9100 block of Baltimore Avenue. Avelar, 20, was found with a gunshot wound in the hotel parking lot and later died at a local hospital.

Detectives concluded the homicide appeared to be gang-related after a fight erupted between Avelar’s group and another group that had been at a different party in the same hotel. Investigators identified a suspect and on March 1, 2013, 20-year-old Edwin Morales of Southeast Washington was arrested in Northwest Washington, D.C., then charged with first- and second-degree murder and other offenses; he was being held in D.C. pending extradition to Prince George’s County.

If anyone was at the hotel that night or has information about the confrontation in the parking lot, please share what you know.