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On the night of November 21, 2020, 22-year-old Nathan Pastrana was shot and killed while working at a Sonic Drive-In in Bellevue, Nebraska. The attack also killed 28-year-old coworker Ryan Helbert and wounded two other employees. Police responded first to a report of a possible bomb in a U-Haul parked outside the restaurant, which was later updated to a shooting; officers found the truck on fire and the victims at the scene.

The suspect, identified as 23-year-old Roberto Carlos Silva Jr., was arrested at the scene. Investigators later said the motive was to eliminate witnesses to a previous crime; Silva had been arrested days earlier for using another person’s Sonic app to fraudulently obtain $57 worth of food and had been released on bail before the shooting. Family and community members set up a memorial at the restaurant; Pastrana’s family said he had moved from Texas to Nebraska to start a new life and remembered him as kind and caring.

Does anyone have information about Nathan’s last shifts at the restaurant or memories of him to share with the community?