Yesenia Macias was 20 when she was fatally shot in the head on July 1, 2007, in the parking lot of the Townhome Motel at 3204 W. Main St., Alhambra, California. The shooting happened about 10:50 p.m. after Yesenia and a Latino man arrived at the motel; the man heard a gunshot as he exited the vehicle, saw Yesenia had been struck, and rushed her first to Los Angeles Community Hospital and then to County-USC Medical Center, where she died later that night.

Investigators reported the shot appeared to come from nowhere and there were no immediate suspects or clear motive at the scene. They later learned Yesenia had been involved with a married man named Juan and that Juan had trouble with certain individuals the week before the shooting, leading investigators to consider those contacts as possible suspects. A man was convicted of Yesenia’s murder, the appellate court rejected reducing the charge to involuntary manslaughter, and the California Supreme Court declined to review the case, leaving the conviction in place.

Does anyone have information about Yesenia, Juan, or events around Alhambra in late June and early July 2007 that could shed more light on what happened?