Ezequiel Ruiz was 18 when he was found shot to death in the driver’s seat of a vehicle near the West Park Apartments on South Salina Street on the night of January 21, 2020. He had been shot twice in the head. Ruiz was a recent graduate of the Institute of Technology at Syracuse and had played defensive line on the school’s football team.

The Syracuse Police Department investigated and identified a 15-year-old, Benjamin Kemp, as a suspect in what investigators described as a robbery over about $40 worth of marijuana. Kemp was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and first-degree armed robbery, and was held at Hillbrook Detention Center awaiting legal proceedings.

If anyone knew Ezequiel, saw him that night, or has information about the events near South Salina Street on January 21, 2020, please come forward.