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On a warm Saturday evening, June 1, 2024, gunfire broke out during a basketball game at Fountain Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Twenty-five-year-old Angel Martinez-Velez was shot multiple times on the court and was pronounced dead at the scene; the Lehigh County Coroner’s Office later ruled his death a homicide. Loved ones remembered him as a friend, brother, son, husband, and father.

Witnesses reported seeing two masked gunmen, one wearing a distinctive red jacket, flee in a dark-colored Honda Accord closely followed by a white Infiniti. Police used the city’s surveillance network to track both vehicles as they sped away, and within two hours located the cars near the East Court Street home of a suspect, Carlos Landesta-Agramonte. Clothing and masks matching witness descriptions were found inside one vehicle.

Investigators arrested five people in connection with the killing. Grelvis Estevez Cabrera, then 27, and Carlos Nathaniel Landesta-Agramonte, then 18, were charged soon after with conspiracy to commit criminal homicide and tampering with evidence. Wilmer Esequiel Marte-Tavarez, 22, was charged with criminal homicide amid allegations his fingerprints were on the Honda. Alfeni Romero-Tavares, 22, and Joel Garcia-Paulino, 22, were charged with homicide and other offenses; a witness identified Romero-Tavares as one of the shooters and his DNA was reported on clothing recovered after the incident.

Does anyone have information about what happened at Fountain Park that evening or knew Angel?