Eshmell Arath Mendez was 19 and visiting friends at Goodnight Commons Apartments in southeast Austin on April 29, 2021, when he was shot and killed. Around 6:50 p.m. an 18-year-old, identified in reports as Jeremiah Crayton, knocked on an apartment door. When a resident opened it, Crayton allegedly produced a pistol from his jacket pocket and shot Mendez. Mendez was found on the apartment floor with gunshot wounds and pronounced dead at the scene after life-saving measures.

Following the shooting, the shooter fled in a silver four-door sedan. An arrest warrant was issued the next day and Crayton was taken into custody by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force; bond was set at $250,000. The case drew significant community attention for its sudden, fatal violence and its impact on Mendez’s family and neighborhood.

Did anyone in southeast Austin see the silver sedan or have information about events leading up to that evening?