Eighteen-year-old Jairo Lara-Garcia of Homestead, Florida, was shot multiple times and killed on August 12, 2022, after a dispute at a home in southwest Miami-Dade. Jairo and his 17-year-old girlfriend had gone to the house of Jairo’s estranged stepfather to collect money when a confrontation between Jairo and the stepfather escalated into violence; the girlfriend was also injured and both were taken to Jackson South Medical Center, where Jairo died after being airlifted.

The shooting has been described as domestic-related. Jairo’s mother, Sandra Monzon, said she had recently separated from her husband because of ongoing abuse and did not expect he would harm her son. Jairo was remembered as a humble, church-involved young man and an aspiring rapper. The stepfather was detained after the shooting but later released; no formal charges have been announced and the investigation is ongoing.

Does anyone have information about the events at that southwest Miami-Dade home on August 12, 2022, or knew Jairo and can help investigators with what happened?