Laura Gomez Cuartas, an 18-year-old senior at Cypress Creek High School who planned to study special education at Valencia College, was found dead from a gunshot wound to the chest on March 30, 2017, at her best friend’s house on Bellsworth Way in South Orange County, Orlando. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office initially ruled the death a suicide; the classification was later changed to undetermined and the death certificate listed the cause as shot by other with handgun.

Investigators arrested 17-year-old Giovanni Gordono, the brother of Laura’s best friend, and charged him as an adult with manslaughter, tampering with physical evidence, giving a false report, and possession of a firearm by a minor. Gordono’s accounts of what happened changed multiple times—first saying Laura shot herself, later saying the gun accidentally discharged while both were handling it, and eventually admitting he was holding the gun and dancing when it fired.

Laura’s mother, Lina Cuartas, maintained her daughter did not take her own life and pushed for accountability. Does anyone have information about Laura, the house on Bellsworth Way, or the days leading up to March 30, 2017?