Eliud Barrera Cueva Jr., 32, was shot while seated in the back of a friend’s vehicle around 2:18 a.m. on May 17, 2024, at the Alta Blue Goose Apartments on Blue Goose Road in Manor, Texas. The vehicle had just arrived at the complex when an unknown assailant fired into it, striking Cueva in the head. Friends drove him to a Waffle House on U.S. Highway 290 where emergency services were called; he was transported to Dell Seton Hospital in Austin and died on May 18 at 5:36 p.m.

Austin Police Department investigators found messages on Cueva’s phone about a planned drug purchase and say those communications raised the possibility he was set up by the person he had been texting. Cueva, known as El Nuno, was from Elgin, Texas, and was remembered as a handyman and musician. Funeral services were held May 25, 2024, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Elgin, with burial at Elgin Latin Cemetery.

Does anyone have information about Cueva’s movements that night or knowledge of the planned meeting referenced in his phone messages?