On the evening of June 15, 2024, 17-year-old Kai Burgos was found by Lynn police inside a crashed car in a ravine next to the Market Basket parking lot at 40 Federal Street in Lynn, Massachusetts. He had suffered a gunshot wound and was taken to Salem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Investigators identified an 18-year-old suspect, Adrian Pena of Lynn, who left the country after the shooting. Law enforcement agencies working with authorities in the Dominican Republic located and arrested Pena on July 16 in the Dominican Republic. He was returned to the United States and arraigned on a fugitive from justice charge in Miami, then brought back to Massachusetts, where he pleaded not guilty to murder and illegal possession of a firearm in connection with Burgos’s death.

The motive for the shooting has not been publicly disclosed. If anyone has information about Kai Burgos or the circumstances around the June 15 incident, please share what is known with the authorities.