Sayuri Casas Yerena was 18 when she and her boyfriend, 21-year-old Victor F. Mendez-Paredes, were shot and killed in Columbus, Ohio, in the early hours of December 25, 2015. The pair were sitting in a parked vehicle on Courtside Drive at the Wynds apartment complex at about 3:59 AM when someone fired multiple shots. Officers responding to initial reports of a robbery and then shots found both victims critically wounded; emergency responders pronounced them dead at the scene around 4:14 AM.

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Columbus Police Department list this as an unsolved double homicide and continue to seek public assistance. Anyone with information about what happened that night is urged to contact the Columbus Police Department or submit a tip through the Ohio Attorney General’s website.