Angel Manuel Hernandez was 21 when his body was found in the front seat of a 1998 gold Chevy Cavalier parked at the Park at Ravenna Apartments in Tampa on May 1, 2016. Deputies from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call about a deceased person in the vehicle around 4 a.m. and confirmed his identity. The car carried a license plate not assigned to that vehicle, a detail investigators noted as potentially significant.

HCSO treated the death as a homicide and began interviewing witnesses and collecting evidence, but did not immediately release a cause of death. No arrests or major breakthroughs were reported in the immediate aftermath and the case remained open. If anyone has information about Hernandez, the vehicle, or who might have been near the Park at Ravenna Apartments that morning, please share what is known.