On the night of January 27, 2024, 23-year-old Elian Murrugarra was a passenger in a gray Nissan sedan involved in a minor collision on southbound Interstate 35E near the Woodall Rodgers Freeway in Dallas. After the driver attempted to pull over at about 2:30 a.m., an unidentified assailant fired into the vehicle and struck Murrugarra. He was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and died from his injuries on January 29, 2024. The Dallas Police Department has reassigned the case to its Homicide Unit; no suspects have been identified and no arrests have been made. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Phillip Wheeler at 214-671-3686 or [email protected], reference case number 014398-2024.

What did anyone driving through that stretch of I-35E around 2:30 a.m. see or hear that night?