On the evening of September 21, 2014, 16-year-old Jose Ual Hernandez-Pena was shot and killed while seated in the front passenger seat of a Honda stopped at a red light at Sahara Avenue and Decatur Boulevard in Las Vegas. Jose had been brought to the United States from El Salvador two and a half years earlier and was a 10th-grader at Clark High School. He had just finished dinner with family members and was not engaging with the occupants of the other vehicle when someone in a dark-colored sedan opened fire, striking him multiple times.

Witnesses said a vehicle carrying four men pulled alongside and one occupant made a gesture and shouted something like where are you from? Family and police have stated Jose had no gang involvement. After the shooting the group drove to a relative’s house in the 5200 block of Stampa Avenue and called for help; Jose was found in the driveway and later died at University Medical Center. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police described the killing as a heinous, random act.

Investigators reviewed nearby business surveillance but reported no useful leads, and no witnesses came forward. By early 2016 the case remained unsolved and the four men in the dark sedan had not been identified or apprehended. Does anyone who was near Sahara and Decatur that night remember seeing a dark-colored sedan with four men?