Sebastian Acosta-Bayona, 19, was shot and killed on August 9, 2019, outside an apartment at Sharon Point Apartment Homes on Amity Pointe Road in Charlotte. The call for service came in at 8:39 p.m.; officers found him with a gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Family members were notified.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police charged 17-year-old Juan Lopez-Garcia with Sebastian’s murder; Lopez-Garcia was arrested and charged. Police noted this slaying was the fourth homicide in Charlotte that week and the city’s 70th homicide of 2019, and expressed concern about a rising number of shootings and homicides connected to conflicts being resolved with violence.

The investigation is ongoing. If anyone has information about what happened that night, contact the Homicide Unit Detective or Crime Stoppers.