On the afternoon of July 23, 2015, Ricardo Hernandez-Ovalle, 22, of Alpharetta, was found on a sidewalk at the Azalea Park apartments in Sandy Springs with at least one fatal gunshot wound. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene and the Sandy Springs Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

Detectives developed a person of interest and released a composite sketch, but the suspect remained at large for months. In March 2016, investigators located and arrested 22-year-old Juan Rabadan Chavez near the New Mexico–Arizona border as he attempted to cross from Mexico into the United States; he was taken into custody on an outstanding warrant for Hernandez-Ovalle’s murder and extradited to Georgia. A Fulton County grand jury later indicted Chavez on malice murder, criminal street gang participation, multiple counts of felony murder, and firearm possession, and the case went to trial in August 2017.

Court records show a jury convicted Chavez on all counts presented at trial. One firearm possession conviction was later reversed by the Supreme Court of Georgia for insufficient evidence, while the more serious convictions were upheld. Does anyone have information about Hernandez-Ovalle’s life in the Azalea Park area or about that day in July 2015?