On the afternoon of October 23, 2018, 23-year-old Jason Luis Gonzalez was driving a silver Toyota Camry near Donelson and Admiral Streets in Providence when his rear window was struck by gunfire. The car ran over a curb and stopped against a stop sign; Gonzalez was taken to Rhode Island Hospital and pronounced dead from his wounds. The shooting happened in daylight and left neighbors stunned.

Gonzalez, a local resident known as Heavy and described by one neighbor as sweet, quiet, and nice, may have been an unintended target according to that neighbor’s account. Years earlier, as a teenager in 2013, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and a firearm violation connected to the Christmas Eve murder of Ryan Almeida and had been linked to the Chad Brown street gang at that time.

No suspects or arrests have been publicly identified and the Providence Police Department is asking anyone with information to come forward. Did anyone in the neighborhood see or hear anything that afternoon?