Nancy Margarita Pedraza was 23 when she died from a gunshot wound to the neck. The shooting happened April 27, 2012, during an argument with her boyfriend, Anthony Lucas Villaroel, 23, in a car parked outside a condominium complex at 4911 Hollenden Drive. Pedraza later died at WakeMed on June 4, 2012.

Villaroel was arrested after the April incident and initially charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Following Pedraza’s death, the charge was upgraded to murder; he remained in Wake County jail facing that charge. Investigators reported the couple had a history of arguments and described the fatal shooting as the culmination of escalating tensions. Pedraza’s death was noted as one of several domestic violence–related deaths in Wake County that year.

Anyone with information about Nancy Pedraza, her movements that night, or the events at 4911 Hollenden Drive is asked to come forward.