Robert Tito Aponte-Flores, 25, was shot and killed on the afternoon of July 12, 2023, in the Myles Standish State Forest in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He had been visiting a picnic area near Fearing Pond with his girlfriend, his 7-year-old son, and other relatives when an altercation broke out. Responding officers found him with multiple gunshot wounds, including to the face, left tricep, and right collarbone; he was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess–Plymouth Hospital and pronounced dead shortly after.

Bystanders and investigators reported a confrontation between Aponte-Flores and a 20-year-old man just before the shooting. An arrest warrant for John Geovanni Pires Monteiro Macedo was obtained on July 13, 2023. Monteiro Macedo was located by state troopers and arrested on August 5, 2023, in New Bedford and charged with murder. At a Plymouth District Court arraignment he pleaded not guilty and was ordered held without bail; prosecutors pointed to eyewitness accounts of the picnic-area confrontation and the case was scheduled to continue on October 5, 2023.

Are there witnesses or anyone who was at Fearing Pond on July 12 who can add details about what led to the confrontation?