Jose Armando Lopez was 28 when he was shot at point-blank range and killed on December 3, 2016, in the Briarwood mobile home park in unincorporated Palm Beach County. The shooting was tied to a turf feud over drug sales in the community.

Authorities identified Malyra Perez as the primary suspect and arrested her days after the killing on weapons charges. Investigators reported finding Lopez’s blood in a rental car she had been using and recovered the firearm she possessed at arrest. Perez was charged with murder on December 28, 2016, and later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in January 2020; the court sentenced her to 40 years in prison.

Lopez’s death devastated his family and neighbors and underscored the lethal consequences of drug-related conflicts in the mobile home park. Did anyone in the Briarwood community see or hear anything the night of December 3, 2016?