Sixteen-year-old Josue David Magadan, a Hispanic male, was shot in the back of the head while sitting in the driver’s seat of a Chevrolet Tahoe in the parking lot of a Murray, Utah, McDonald’s on March 2, 2024. Police say the shooting occurred during what was described as play fighting when a 20-year-old good friend, Jhon-Alvaro-Alarcon Paredes, who had been seated in the back directly behind Josue, produced a handgun, chambered a round, pointed it at the back of Josue’s head and the firearm discharged.

Paredes fled the scene after the shooting; investigators tracked his cellphone to Fruita, Colorado, and deputies located a vehicle matching his at a gas station the next day and took him into custody. Josue died of his injuries on the evening of March 5, 2024. He was born in Guerrero, Mexico, and an obituary says he will be laid to rest there; a GoFundMe was set up to help with funeral expenses.

What details about that evening could help explain how a reportedly joking exchange ended with a fatal discharge, and does anyone have information about Josue’s last hours or the people who were with him?