Michael Aldana, 28, was shot and killed on April 5, 2015, in Spring, Texas, during a violent crime spree. The shooting occurred in a parking lot while Aldana was in his car; he provided a description of the gunmen to police before he died. The firearm recovered from a stolen blue Mazda was forensically linked by ballistics to the bullet that killed him.

The attack was part of a series of armed robberies and carjackings attributed to Jamal Ferguson and Eric Guzman. The spree began the evening of April 4, 2015, with robberies in a nursing home parking lot, a car theft, and a purse-snatching at a Target, followed about six hours later by a robbery at a McDonald’s and the fatal shooting of Aldana. A Houston officer later spotted the stolen Mazda, prompting a high-speed chase; the suspects initially escaped but were subsequently arrested.