On the evening of February 23, 2025, 20-year-old Celvin Olivares-Portillo was fatally shot while walking with his girlfriend on the 4400 block of Eastern Avenue in Baltimore. The couple was reportedly on their way to dinner when two people approached and opened fire; the girlfriend escaped unharmed and Olivares-Portillo was found lying on his back and pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators recovered eight 9mm shell casings, two live 9mm rounds, and two 9mm projectiles.

Surveillance footage and an officer familiar with one of the individuals identified Jessiel Zuniga Martinez as the shooter. The video showed Martinez taking a Maryland Transit Administration bus near the scene, meeting a second person, and the two following Olivares-Portillo before the shooting. Martinez, a 16-year-old from Honduras who had been in the U.S. about three years, was charged as an adult; a second suspect remained at large at the time of the plea hearing. Reports at the hearing included that a friend of Olivares-Portillo’s girlfriend had received threatening messages mentioning the 18th Street gang.

Does anyone have information about the second person involved or other details that could help clarify what led to this attack?