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On the evening of May 30, 2017, 16-year-old Fernando Aranda was walking near his home on Thayn Drive in West Valley City, Utah, when a light-colored SUV pulled up and three to four young males exited and attacked him. Neighbors reported seeing an argument and a group fighting before gunfire; at least one assailant produced a handgun and shot Fernando multiple times. He was left in the street and died at the scene despite attempts to save him.

Investigators called the incident an apparent ambush but did not immediately establish a clear motive. Witnesses described the fleeing vehicle as a mid-2000s white or light-colored SUV, possibly a Ford Escape, heading eastbound. The West Valley City Police Department offered a $5,000 reward and asked for help identifying two individuals, reportedly brothers and known by street names, who may have information.

The case remains an active, unsolved homicide. Can anyone who was in the Thayn Drive area that night or who knows the two men with those street names provide tips to investigators?