Jose Bolanos, a 63-year-old carpenter who lived in Fort Lauderdale, was found dead in a motel room at the Vacation Inn in Fort Lauderdale on July 7, 2018. He was discovered around 4 a.m. with fatal gunshot wounds. The Fort Lauderdale Police Department opened an investigation and initially withheld specific details about the manner of his death.

Investigators later identified Monae Isolina Garcia, 28, of Coral Springs, as a suspect. Garcia turned herself in and was arrested on August 20, 2018, on charges of premeditated murder and armed robbery. She was held in jail without bond and ordered to remain in custody pending presentation of the case to a grand jury. The investigation into the events that led to Bolanos’s death was continuing, and police asked anyone with information to come forward.

If anyone has information about Bolanos, his movements that night, or the people he was with, please share what you know with investigators.