On January 23, 2022, 26-year-old Juan Carlos Villatoro was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Ojos Locos restaurant in North Austin shortly after 10:30 p.m. A 911 call brought officers to the scene, where Villatoro and 28-year-old Heliodoro Arias Flores were both found with gunshot wounds. Villatoro was pronounced dead at the scene just before 11 p.m.; Flores was transported to a hospital and later died the following day at 3:50 a.m.

Homicide investigators and crime scene technicians interviewed witnesses and identified 19-year-old Edgar Alejandro Barahona as a probable suspect. Barahona was arrested by the Lonestar Fugitive Task Force and charged with two counts of murder; the Travis County Medical Examiner ruled both deaths homicides due to gunshot wounds. The slayings were recorded as Austin’s seventh and eighth homicides of 2022.

What information about that night or the area outside Ojos Locos might help explain how this shooting unfolded?