Rudy N. B. Gonzales was 26 and lived in Toledo, Ohio when he died on August 23, 2020, about a week before his 27th birthday. He worked in home construction with Mondo Construction for more than five years and was a father to a son and a daughter. His death at home was described as unexpected, and investigators later linked his passing to a murder investigation.

Toledo police reported that Gonzales was murdered and that his body was found in Swan Creek Preserve Metropark. A 35-year-old man named Ryan Thames was identified as a suspect; Thames called 911 saying he was in the park and planned to kill himself and was later found deceased of a gunshot wound. Thames’s death was ruled a suicide, while authorities continued to investigate Gonzales’s murder. Gonzales’s family has launched a fundraiser to help cover funeral expenses.

If anyone has information about Gonzales, his movements before August 23, 2020, or what happened at Swan Creek Preserve, please come forward.