Mauricio Alvarez was 19 and a former student at Indian Trail High School when he was shot and killed on the night of June 13, 2023, in the parking lot of Grace Lutheran Church in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Mauricio and his 21-year-old brother, Kevin Alvarez, had driven from their home in Zion, Illinois, to meet other men for what police said was a drug deal. Surveillance video shows Kevin dropping fake cash and drugs at the scene before driving himself and Mauricio to a hospital. Mauricio suffered a gunshot wound to the head, went into cardiac arrest, and was pronounced dead shortly before 11 p.m. Kevin was shot in the chest and thighs; another man, Tayvion Taylor, was shot in the arm or shoulder and later went to a different hospital.

Investigators recovered three bullet casings, $760 in counterfeit money, and THC vape cartridges, psilocybin mushrooms, and marijuana at the parking lot, and later recovered two different guns used in the shooting. Three men were charged: Kevin Alvarez with first-degree reckless homicide; Tayvion Taylor with felony murder and armed robbery; and 20-year-old Anthony Santana, who fled and had a half-million-dollar warrant before being arrested in California. Mauricio’s family later held a fundraiser to cover funeral expenses.

Did anyone in the Kenosha or Zion area know Mauricio or have information about the events that night?