On the evening of July 13, 2024, in the 300 block of East 14th Avenue in Eugene, Oregon, 16-year-old Fernando Ismael Aguirre was shot and later found dead in a parking lot near the driver’s side of a parked car. Aguirre, who had turned 16 a month earlier, was with a group of teens referred to as the 12th Street Kids. The group had been denied entry to a party at an apartment on East 14th Avenue, and an argument followed.

According to police reports, during the confrontation an 18-year-old member of Aguirre’s group reportedly drew a gun, and 18-year-old Jayson Blackwell and 19-year-old Athel Morgan, Jr. also produced firearms. Multiple shots were fired as people scattered; Aguirre, who was unarmed, was struck in the back. The Eugene Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit opened a homicide investigation. A vehicle was seen leaving the scene with its lights off and police detained a juvenile in the Kinsrow area, though that detention’s connection to the homicide was not immediately clear. Warrants have been issued for Blackwell and Morgan on unlawful use of a weapon, and police reported both were avoiding law enforcement.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or saw the people or vehicles involved, please come forward to assist the investigation.