Charles Perez was 17 when he was killed on July 15, 2020, in Chicago while attempting to sell his father’s Honda Civic through Facebook Marketplace. He went to a meeting in Englewood at 71st Street and Loomis Avenue accompanied by his friend Enrique Gonzalez Jr., 20. Charlie’s mother followed in a separate car but lost sight of them and could not reach him; a detective later notified her of the deaths.

Surveillance footage and phone records place 18-year-old Davion Jones at the meeting. Jones was captured on video entering a nearby corner store wearing a gold do-rag and a white T-shirt reading Gi-Gi, then getting into the Civic as Charlie drove away. Less than ten minutes later officers responding to a ShotSpotter alert found Charlie shot twice in the neck in the driver’s seat and Enrique shot in the back of the head in the rear seat.

Davion Jones was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and held without bail; prosecutors relied on his communications with Charlie and the surveillance footage, and investigators say Jones exchanged messages suggesting a premeditated plan to rob and kill. Authorities continue to seek any additional suspects or information. Did anyone in the Englewood area see the Civic or the three men that afternoon?