Ronald Sanchez was 16 when he was shot and killed on a Las Vegas freeway in the early morning hours of September 7, 1997. He was driving his sister’s 1996 white Plymouth Neon westbound on U.S. 95 with a friend in the passenger seat; his 14-year-old brother and another friend followed in a second car. Near the Las Vegas Boulevard exit, shots rang out. Sanchez accelerated to escape, but a single bullet struck him in the back. His passenger steered the Neon to the shoulder at the on-ramp to northbound Interstate 15 and applied the brake as Sanchez lost consciousness.

He was taken to the University Medical Center-Trauma Unit but died of his wound. No one in either vehicle saw the shooter, and the assailant remains unidentified. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is asking anyone with information to come forward. Does anyone remember that night or have information that could help resolve this case?