Ramon Antonio Alvarado-Cubas, a 32-year-old Latino man, was shot and killed outside an apartment building at the Brook Valley Apartments on Deanna Lane in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the early hours of February 16, 2020. Police responded to an assault with a deadly weapon call around 2:01 a.m.; Alvarado-Cubas was found with a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department opened a homicide investigation and on February 17, 2020, detectives arrested 39-year-old Rafael Molina Pena. Pena was taken into custody without incident and charged with murder; investigators say Pena was involved in the shooting that led to Alvarado-Cubas’ death. The case was noted amid a sharp rise in homicides in Charlotte in 2020, when the city recorded 120 reported homicides.

Anyone with information about the shooting or who knew Ramon Antonio Alvarado-Cubas is asked to share what they know.