On the evening of March 31, 2021, 29-year-old Selvin Yovani Lara-Reyes hosted a family cookout at his apartment on Oak Meadow Court in Charlotte. A dispute with a neighbor escalated after police were called earlier that night about gunshots and left without incident. Around 9:45 p.m., the neighbor, Andy Garcia, returned with several acquaintances and began shooting at Mr. Lara-Reyes while he stood on his back porch.

Mr. Lara-Reyes tried to run inside his apartment, but Garcia followed and continued shooting. He was struck four times, including twice in the back, and collapsed inside the apartment from a fatal back wound. A 7-year-old boy inside the residence was also hit in the hand and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg homicide detectives identified two suspects quickly. On April 1, 2021, police arrested 19-year-old Andy Jonathan Garcia and 18-year-old Mario Alexander Monroy; both were charged with murder, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, and felony breaking and entering.

Did anyone attend the cookout or live in that complex who can share what happened that night?