A shooting in a Lawrence parking lot on August 18, 2024, left three men dead. Thirty-three-year-old Juan Manuel Alfaro Escobar and 35-year-old Candido Eustaquio Antunez Guillen were pronounced dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds; 38-year-old Daniel Alberto Morales Uribe was taken to a hospital and later died. Authorities describe the event as the culmination of a long-standing feud between two Honduran families that reportedly began with killings in Honduras and continued after some members came to the United States.

Juan Manuel Alfaro Escobar had previously filed police reports accusing Guillen of threatening his life and alleging Guillen’s family killed his father and other relatives in Honduras. Surveillance showed two cars fleeing after the shooting; a red Ford Focus later crashed nearby and two men ran from the wreck, one seen carrying a rifle. Two people were arrested, including 29-year-old Santos Alfaro-Escobar, identified as Juan’s brother, and 29-year-old Justo Miguel Antunez Escobar. They are being held on ICE detainers and face preliminary charges of battery with a deadly weapon and criminal recklessness; formal charges have not been filed.

The wife of Daniel Morales Uribe said he went to the lot to try to de-escalate and was caught in the crossfire. Does anyone have information about the parking lot shooting or the families involved?