Dinkisra Mengistu, 19, was shot in the upper body and killed on March 9, 2014, while sitting in the back seat of a friend’s car in the parking lot of the Hilton Doubletree Hotel on Hutchinson Avenue in Columbus, Ohio. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Mengistu had emigrated from Ethiopia with his family during middle school and graduated from Westerville South High School in 2012.

Following the shooting, 19-year-old Anthony Monaco was arrested and charged with murder. Columbus SWAT officers apprehended Monaco at a Liberty Township address shortly before 1:00 a.m., and a murder charge and arrest warrant were filed. The case drew attention in Columbus’s Ethiopian community as friends and family gathered to remember Mengistu and seek justice.

Are there details about the evening or the people present that anyone in the community can add to help clarify what happened?