Yousef Jamal Elnaffar, 23, was shot multiple times during a meeting to sell a pair of high-end shoes on March 11, 2025, in the 10800 block of East Bethany Drive in Aurora, Colorado. He had just completed nightly Ramadan prayers at a nearby mosque and met the two buyers at about 9:45 p.m. Officers found him with critical gunshot wounds; he was taken to a hospital and died the next morning. The Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office ruled his death a homicide from multiple gunshot wounds.

Elnaffar was a recent University of Colorado Denver graduate pursuing a Master’s degree at the University of Denver while working in IT. Two 19-year-old suspects were arrested in the days after the killing: Kevin Hernandez-Gonzalez of Franktown, arrested shortly after the shooting and charged with second-degree murder and aggravated robbery and alleged to have been the driver; and Isaac Delacruz of Parker, charged with first-degree murder and aggravated robbery and identified by investigators as the alleged shooter. Authorities are also probing possible links to other Denver metro robberies.

Anyone with information about the meeting on East Bethany Drive or related incidents is asked to come forward.