Evilio Castro Alvarez, 55, was shot and killed on a late Saturday night in July 2017 outside building 29 at the Spanish Valley Apartments in Little Rock. A Mexican national who had moved to the city two years earlier to work in construction, he lived and worked at the complex. Family members described him as a grandfather and a friend who didn’t have an enemy in the world; they arranged to return his body to Mexico for burial.

Witnesses at the scene reported seeing a Black man in a white shirt and long black shorts running from the area with a gun in his hand. Law enforcement opened an investigation; no arrest was ever made in connection with Castro Alvarez’s shooting. The killing was one of two unrelated homicides that weekend and remains one of several unresolved homicides in Little Rock that year.

If anyone knew Evilio Castro Alvarez or saw anyone in the Spanish Valley Apartments area that night, please share information that could help the investigation.