Bernardo Argueta was 24 when he was shot dead in a Houston residential area on October 19, 2017. Officers responding to reports of gunfire found him with multiple gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Houston Police Department’s Homicide Division opened an investigation but initially met obstacles, including a lack of eyewitnesses willing to come forward.

Detectives canvassed the neighborhood, interviewed neighbors, and reviewed surveillance footage. As leads dwindled the case grew cold and was eventually transferred to the department’s Cold Case Squad. In 2024 investigators re-examined scene evidence, including DNA and phone records, using newer forensic methods, but no major breakthrough has been announced. Police continue to ask anyone with information about Argueta’s death to contact them.