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Juan Antonio Loera was 30 when he was fatally shot on the evening of July 21, 2006, in Mesa, Arizona. He was standing next to a car near Main Street and Power Road at about 8:20 p.m. Witnesses reported hearing two gunshots and seeing a flash before a suspect fled. Loera was born in Phoenix on January 1, 1976, and is survived by his parents, siblings, and children.

Investigators recovered shell casings at the scene. In September 2006 Phoenix police recovered a gun in an unrelated incident that a witness said belonged to Ramon Darnell Stewart; ballistic testing later linked that firearm to the shell casings from the Loera shooting. An anonymous tip describing a suspect by first name and placing him in the Jefferson Park neighborhood, a witness who placed Stewart near the scene about ten minutes after the shots, and reports that Stewart spoke to another person about the killing were cited at the time. Stewart was arrested in March 2008 and booked on one count of second-degree murder, though reports differ on whether the case was ever resolved.

Did anyone who knew Juan or his movements that night see something that could help clarify what happened?