Jaime Sylas Duran was 16 when he was shot in the head and killed on November 9, 2019, in Lubbock, Texas. The shooting happened during a failed $30 marijuana deal; court records say Duran attempted to rob one of the people involved, identified in the records as Juan Manuel Pineda, 17, who then fired the fatal shot. Surveillance images and social media posts were used to identify Pineda as the shooter.

After the shooting, three adults — Danielle Morales-Perez, 24, Justin Garcia, 21, and Eva Garcia, 21 — were arrested for abandoning a child because a 15-year-old girl was in the car with them at the time. Those three were not charged in Duran’s murder. Pineda was later arrested and charged with endangering a child after investigators concluded shots had been fired within three feet of the 15-year-old, placing her in imminent danger.

The Lubbock Metro Special Crimes Unit continued to investigate the homicide. If anyone has information about the shooting or the events leading up to it, please come forward.