On the morning of November 1, 2023, 18-year-old Carl Hens Beliard was found with gunshot wounds inside a crashed vehicle on Forest Avenue in Salem, Massachusetts. He was taken to Salem Hospital and pronounced dead. The car had at least one bullet hole shattering a window. Beliard, a freshman at Salem State University and a standout basketball player from Worcester North High School, had been expected home for Thanksgiving and to celebrate his 19th birthday on November 11.

Police treated the shooting as not appearing to be random. That same evening authorities arrested 18-year-old Missael Pena Canela of Salem and charged him with murder. At arraignment Canela pleaded not guilty; prosecutors said a woman who’d been in an on-and-off relationship with Canela was in the car with Beliard and alleged Canela admitted to searching for her and firing at the vehicle as it drove away. Canela was ordered held without bail.

Did anyone in the Salem or Worcester communities see the car on Forest Avenue that morning or know the woman who was reportedly in the vehicle?