Teresa Soto Del Rio was 20 when she was shot on the evening of June 6, 1999, in Los Angeles. She and a friend were giving two boys a ride home when a man emerged from the darkness and opened fire on their vehicle. A bullet penetrated the car door and struck Teresa in the torso; she was taken to hospital, received 14 pints of blood, and died on the operating table the next morning, June 7.

The Los Angeles Police Department identified the shooter as a known gang member and later apprehended him in Las Vegas. Reports say he was a suspect in other violent crimes, including a 1998 murder, and that he had been incarcerated as a juvenile. Teresa was a student at Glendale Community College and worked at a daycare center; her parents Anna and Fernando Del Rio were described as deeply affected by her death.

What details might help piece together Teresa’s last evening or the people she was with that night?