Alisa Espaillat was 17 when she was killed in Pompano Beach, Florida, on November 4, 2020. She was staying with family at the Travelodge By Wyndham motel on Northwest 31st Avenue when someone fired shots into the motel room shortly before 2 a.m. Alisa was struck in the right shoulder and left cheek, taken to Broward Health North, and pronounced dead at 2:23 a.m.

Investigators say the shooting followed an argument involving relatives. Two people identified as suspects, 23-year-old Jayla Leondrea Patton and 19-year-old Deangelo Cincord, arrived at the motel room in the middle of the night. Alisa’s stepfather, Armando Gonzalez, confronted them and tried to close the door; Patton allegedly reached into the room and Gonzalez pushed her away. Moments later Cincord opened fire through a window. Surveillance footage from the motel captured the incident. Both Patton and Cincord were arrested and charged with murder and held without bond; Cincord told a judge he was unaware anyone was in the room while his public defender advised him not to discuss the facts of the case.

Alisa was a student at Coconut Creek High School. Her family says they did not know the suspects prior to the shooting and continue to mourn her loss. Does anyone have information about the moments before the shooting or who else might have witnessed activity outside the motel that night?