Carlos Alfredo Bueso Ramirez, 42, was found with a fatal gunshot wound in the driveway of his Normandy Drive home in Wilmington, North Carolina, on June 21, 2026. Emergency responders and sheriff’s deputies performed life-saving measures and transported him to Novant Health, but he died of his injuries. He is survived by his wife and three children, the youngest six months old.

Investigators soon focused on a family member. Deputies detained a man walking near the scene who was identified as Carlos Lazo Toruno, the victim’s brother-in-law. Toruno was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. At his first court appearance, during which the proceedings were frequently interrupted and a translator struggled to keep up, a judge set bond at $1 million and ordered no contact with the victim’s wife, her children, or other family members.

The case is in the early stages of the criminal process. Does anyone in the Silver Lake neighborhood have information about what happened that evening or about the relationship between the families?