Jonathan Bria was 16 when he was shot and killed in west Phoenix in the late hours of a September evening in 1996. He was a passenger in a Nissan truck leaving an Arizona State University football party with friends, headed to a Taco Bell, when a traffic altercation with a 1979 Chevrolet El Camino escalated and the other vehicle opened fire. A single bullet struck Bria in the left flank, causing extensive internal injuries; he was taken to Phoenix General Hospital, airlifted to Good Samaritan Hospital, and died during surgery after bleeding to death internally. Two other people in the truck were wounded but survived.

Initial investigation identified only a description and a street name, Dopey. A Phoenix detective later linked the shooting to Tony Aguilar, who was arrested in El Paso, Texas, in July 1997. Aguilar, who was 16 at the time of the shooting, was tried and convicted of first-degree murder in Bria’s death and received a death sentence by lethal injection. Prior to that trial he was already serving a life term for the unrelated murders of a couple in west Phoenix that occurred two weeks after Bria’s killing.

Are there details from that night or about the Nissan truck and its occupants that anyone can add?