On the evening of Sunday, November 22, 2020, 49-year-old Ruben Romero Gonzalez was sitting in his truck at the River Bend Apartments on Mercer University Drive in Macon, Georgia, listening to music when a man approached the vehicle during a robbery attempt and a single gunshot killed him. He was taken to Navicent Health Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Initial confusion followed the shooting. A man who had been in the truck, 37-year-old Guadalupe Hernandez Perez, was arrested and charged after giving false statements about his presence, but later video showed he had been inside the truck and left shortly after the shooting; the murder charge against him was subsequently dropped. Investigators then focused on a group of males seen near Gonzalez’s vehicle. Video evidence and eyewitness cooperation identified 21-year-old Jaqwaray Hollingshed as the person who approached the truck, robbed Gonzalez, and fired the fatal shot. Several other suspects — Jamal DeShawn Roundtree, Devin Smiley, Thomas Samuel Pate, and Emmanuel Smart — were also identified and taken into custody on varying charges related to the incident.

The District Attorney acknowledged eyewitnesses whose testimony and the video evidence were central to the case. If anyone knew Ruben Romero Gonzalez, his routines, or saw activity around River Bend Apartments that night, please share what was witnessed with investigators.