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Miguel Angel Ayala was 19 when he was shot and killed in Memphis on the afternoon of Saturday, May 13, 2017, weeks before his planned wedding. Ayala was a passenger in a pickup truck with three other young men who were reportedly on their way to pick up a grill for a party. A single gunshot from the truck’s backseat struck Ayala; the driver rushed him to Methodist North Hospital, but Ayala died in the emergency room minutes after being carried inside.

Police say the person who fired the shot fled on foot from the scene and took the weapon. A few days later Memphis police arrested 19-year-old Hector Rostro, charging him with reckless homicide and tampering with or fabricating evidence. Rostro reportedly told investigators he was examining his gun, trying to find what was wrong with it, when it accidentally discharged and that he threw the gun into a wooded area after the shooting.

Did anyone in the Memphis area see the truck that afternoon or have information about what happened inside the vehicle?