Nelson Vega, a 39-year-old bartender from Hollywood, Florida, was killed on September 13, 2020, during an attempted carjacking. Vega had finished his shift at J.P. Mulligan’s sports bar in Pembroke Pines and was dropping off his girlfriend in Miramar. As he walked her to the door, two 16-year-old boys approached his white Mercedes-Benz, armed with guns and looking for a car to steal. When Vega tried to intervene, he was shot multiple times in the chest and pelvis and later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

Two teenagers named in the case, Nathaniel Williams and Gershon Woods, were arrested and charged; their charges evolved from second-degree murder initially to first-degree murder after indictment, and they were to be tried as adults. Both were held without bond. Vega’s family and friends remember him as gentle and charismatic, a bartender who had recently earned a real estate license, and they continue to seek justice for his death.

Did anyone who knew Nelson or who was in the Miramar or Pembroke Pines area that night see something that could help this investigation?