On Thanksgiving evening, November 26, 2015, 16-year-old Andres Arias was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Estuary Apartments on Evans Road in DeKalb County, outside Atlanta. The shooting followed a family dispute between Andres’s mother and his stepfather, Cristino Ramos-Santos, reportedly over Ramos-Santos, who witnesses said was intoxicated, attempting to take the couple’s young child. Andres is described as stepping in to protect his mother and sibling and was shot multiple times.

Witnesses reported Ramos-Santos left the scene in a black GMC Yukon and was identified by police as the suspect. Public reports after the shooting do not contain information about an arrest, trial, or conviction in connection with Andres’s death. The family’s loss on a holiday remains a tragic, unresolved chapter. If anyone has information about what happened that night or Ramos-Santos’s whereabouts, please share tips with investigators.