Julio Enrique DeLima Morales, 38, was killed on the evening of February 23, 2022, in Nashville, Tennessee. He was sitting in his Nissan Altima in the 3300 block of Ezell Road when a vehicle pulled up and a passenger opened fire, fatally wounding him. The shooting happened in public and initially left investigators with few answers.

Metro Nashville Police Department detectives later focused on a dispute over a woman as the suspected motive. That inquiry led to two men: Hugo Rosales-Aguilar and Josue Flores-Mercado. In December 2023 both were indicted on first-degree murder charges in connection with DeLima Morales’s death. Rosales-Aguilar was arrested by Specialized Investigations Division detectives at an apartment complex on Packard Drive; Flores-Mercado was already jailed on an unrelated robbery charge when the indictment was returned.

The case is now moving through the Davidson County court system. Did anyone in Nashville see activity in the Ezell Road area that night or know Julio Enrique DeLima Morales?