Fifteen-year-old Dervin Amado Arteaga Ervir, from the Honduran village of El Escano de Tepale, was shot and killed in San Francisco on July 18, 2021. He had recently been selling drugs with other young Honduran migrants near Seventh and Mission streets. That evening a driver in a white Chevrolet Malibu approached and demanded cash from his backpack; although Dervin handed over cash, he was shot when he either didn’t hear or didn’t comply with a demand to give up the entire bag. His father, Marcio Amado Arteaga Escoto, who was nearby, heard the shots and found his son bleeding from the neck; Dervin was pronounced dead at San Francisco General Hospital later that night.

Investigators tied the case to a wider pattern of young Honduran migrants involved in drug selling in the Tenderloin and South of Market, supplied in part by Mexican cartels, and said San Francisco has been a significant hub in that trade. San Francisco police arrested 30-year-old Wilmer Arteaga of Oakland near the suspect vehicle; officers reported finding a firearm and large quantities of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and fentanyl. He was booked on attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and multiple drug charges. The investigation remains open.

Does anyone have information about Dervin, the incident that night, or sightings of the white Chevrolet Malibu?