Rafiel Sanz, an 18-year-old Dominican male from Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was fatally shot on December 2, 2025, during an early morning altercation outside a Centre Street business in Freeland, Luzerne County. He was taken to Lehigh Valley Medical Center in Hazleton, where he died; a 15-year-old male was also shot in the leg and survived.

A homicide investigation produced multiple arrests within days. Authorities arrested 24-year-old Edgar Polanco of Hazleton on December 3, charging him with conspiracy to commit criminal homicide and alleging he acted as a lookout. Nineteen-year-old Jhoan Solano Castillo was charged with criminal homicide and conspiracy to commit criminal homicide and held without bail.

In the second week of December, four more people were charged: Lysander Josue Pichardo, Waili Bonilla, Wally Javier Barrera Torres, and Emmanuel Franklin Feliz, each facing criminal homicide and conspiracy to commit criminal homicide. Bonilla, Barrera Torres, and Feliz were arraigned and held without bail; Pichardo was apprehended in New Jersey and held pending extradition to Pennsylvania.

Does anyone have information about the incident or the people involved on Centre Street that night?