Min Gu, a 30-year-old Chinese national, was found dead on March 21, 2016, in Monterey Park, California. His body was discovered in the trunk of his black sedan parked in a residential neighborhood after a resident reported a foul odor coming from the vehicle. Officers found the car unlocked and, when they opened the trunk, they discovered Gu’s badly decomposed body with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Gu had been reported missing nearly a month earlier, on February 22, 2016. Investigators identified 37-year-old Temple City resident Andy Yalau Chen as a suspect; Chen had been one of the last people known to have had contact with Gu before he disappeared. A search of Chen’s home turned up Gu’s blood under the floorboards and two bullet casings, and also revealed a large-scale marijuana grow operation with over 1,000 plants and several pounds of packaged marijuana. Chen was arrested on April 6, 2016, and charged with first-degree murder and cultivating marijuana; authorities said the suspected motive involved a financial dispute over borrowed money.

Did anyone in Monterey Park or Temple City know Min Gu or have information about his contacts in February and March 2016?