Eduardo Moreno Lujan, a 21-year-old Hispanic man, was shot and killed on January 30, 2023, in the parking lot of the Atherton Park Apartments in Taylorsville/Salt Lake City. He and his cousin, Rafael Antonio Torres, had arranged to sell THC vape cartridges to a teenage buyer. Moreno Lujan was in the driver’s seat with the teen in the front passenger seat; Torres sat in the back.

According to statements provided by Torres’s attorney, the teen pretended to step out of the car claiming he needed more money, then produced a gun and shot Moreno Lujan. Moreno Lujan returned fire, and Torres also fired from the back seat, striking the teen. Both Moreno Lujan and the teenage passenger were later found dead inside the vehicle; the car had rolled forward and stopped against a snowbank and a fence.

Torres, 19 at the time, fled the scene and later surrendered to police through his attorney and was arrested on suspicion of aggravated murder. Did anyone in the area witness the transaction or the shooting that night?