Daniel Perez-Alvarez was an 18-year-old Hispanic male from Aurora, Illinois, who died after being shot on January 23, 2019. The shooting happened about 9:50 p.m. near the intersection of Beach and Claim Streets on Aurora’s Near East Side while Daniel was a passenger in a car with three other teenagers — a 19-year-old male and two juveniles aged 16 and 17. Police describe the incident as an apparent homicide: someone in a passing vehicle fired into the car, and Daniel was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead at 12:17 a.m. the next day.

Investigators said the shooting did not appear to be random, but despite multiple witnesses they were unable to obtain a description of the shooter or the other vehicle. The Kane County Coroner’s autopsy confirmed Daniel died of gunshot wounds. Aurora police offered a $5,000 reward through Aurora Area Crime Stoppers for tips leading to an arrest; no arrests have been announced and the case remains unsolved.

Daniel’s family and friends remembered him as respectful, loving and caring. Who in the community might have seen that car or knows more about the night of January 23, 2019?