On October 24, 2021, 16-year-old Pablo Gomez was fatally shot in the Starling Place subdivision in Mableton, Georgia, after a prearranged confrontation between teenagers turned deadly. The meeting had been organized by two local teenagers, Justin Flores Allende, 17, and Jonathan Fernandez, 15, who arranged a fight with Gomez and another youth, Edgar Villatoro. During the brawl Gomez and Villatoro tried to flee when a third, unidentified person fired a rifle, striking Gomez and killing him.

Cobb County police arrested Allende and Fernandez and charged both with malice murder for arranging the meeting that led to Gomez’s death; each was also charged with three counts of aggravated assault with intent to murder for shots fired at Villatoro and two other men at the scene. Authorities do not believe either Allende or Fernandez fired the fatal shot. Fernandez was held without bond at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center; bonding information for Allende was not released because he is a minor. The shooter remains at large and the investigation into that person’s identity and whereabouts is ongoing.

If anyone has information about the person who fired the rifle or the events that night, please share what you know.