Eric Hernan Salas-Nepomuceno, 22, of Durham, was shot and killed shortly before 2 a.m. on February 13, 2021, in the parking lot of El Piano Bar in the 100 block of Reed Street in Cary. Cary police responded to reports of shots fired and found Salas-Nepomuceno with fatal gunshot wounds; three other Durham residents were injured in the same incident.

Investigators say an exchange at the business escalated into violence. Cary police arrested 21-year-old Juan Manuel Calvo-Hernandez and charged him with one count of first-degree murder and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and inflicting serious injury; he was taken into custody at the Wake County Public Safety Center. A second person, Giovanni Ramirez, was later charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and inflicting serious injury.

The shooting and its aftermath have affected the local community and the victims’ families. Does anyone who was at El Piano Bar that night or who knows the victims have information to share?