A family baptism in the Bronx ended in homicide. Edgar Perez, 46, was shot and killed in the early morning of August 25, 2019, outside the Church of the Holy Nativity on Bainbridge Avenue while celebrating his granddaughters’ baptism. Perez was struck in the back, taken to a nearby hospital, and later died.

The NYPD identified 20-year-old Alexis Flores as the suspect, described as a Hispanic male with a thin build and dark hair who may have shaved it, and investigators believed he fled to Connecticut. Public appeals for information were made and law enforcement was actively searching for Flores as of early 2020. Perez’s colleagues at a Bronx deli remembered him as kind and generous.

Did anyone at the baptism or in the neighborhood see or hear anything that could help locate the person who returned with a gun?