Elkin René Corrales Morazán was 22 when he was fatally stabbed on February 19, 2017, in New Orleans. Police found him on a mattress on Clara Street with multiple stab wounds; he was alive when responders arrived but died from his injuries. Reports describe the incident as beginning as an ordinary, alcohol-tinged gathering among acquaintances and escalating after an argument and fight.

Nicaraguan accounts identify the man blamed by family and community as Martín Jarquín Estrada (also reported as Martin Jose Jarquin-Estrada). Those reports say Corrales had been in the United States about a year and a half, working as a painter and supporting a young child; his body was repatriated to Somoto, Madriz, for burial. Investigators later located and arrested Jarquin-Estrada in Zacatecas, Mexico, on October 15, 2019, and he was brought to Houston as an initial point of entry to the United States pending transfer to New Orleans.

Did anyone in New Orleans or Somoto know Corrales or have information about his last hours?