On the late morning of March 23, 2023, 18-year-old Ariana Rosas was shot and killed in the south parking lot of the Animas Valley Mall in Farmington, New Mexico. She was pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot wounds after being in a vehicle with her 23-year-old boyfriend, Vincent Amato, who was also injured — struck in the face with a pistol and shot in the arm — and taken to San Juan Regional Medical Center.

Amato told police he and Rosas had gone to the mall to meet two men, identified as Samuel Brooks and Christian Morales, intending to sell remaining drugs so he and Rosas could leave town. Amato and Rosas’s mother, Cassie Estrada, named Morales as the shooter; Amato said Brooks directed him where to park before the attack and that Rosas was shot when she tried to grab a gun. Both men were later taken into custody on unrelated charges, but the District Attorney’s office said serious evidentiary problems prevented filing murder charges, and no arrests for Rosas’s homicide had been announced.

Does anyone have information about the events in the Animas Valley Mall parking lot that morning or about Brooks or Morales’s whereabouts that could help the investigation?