Araceles Colon, 45, was found with a fatal gunshot wound to her abdomen on a Thursday night in Macombs Dam Park near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. She was taken to Lincoln Hospital and pronounced dead. Initial statements to police by her 33-year-old boyfriend, Jonathan Sanchez, described an attempted mugging by three people, but those claims changed during questioning and Sanchez later confessed to firing the shot.

Investigators say the apparent motive was jealousy; Sanchez reportedly believed Colon was seeing another man. The couple had been together about two years. Family and friends remembered Colon as peaceful, religious and devoted to her two children, a son and a daughter. She had recently moved out of the family home on Woodycrest Avenue and was staying in a Brooklyn shelter.

Sanchez was arrested and charged with murder and weapons possession. His family described him as a machine of rage and said he had a history of violence and gang involvement in Peru; prior arrests were reported as sealed. Does anyone have information about Colon’s movements that night or knew her well enough to help clarify what happened?