On the night of January 14, 2017, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, 18-year-old Justin Michael Lopez was fatally shot inside a camper parked behind a residence in the 2300 block of North Ninth Street. Lopez, a father to a nine-month-old, was inside the camper with a friend when they heard noises outside. After briefly stepping out and seeing several individuals, Lopez returned to the camper and moments later more than 30 rounds were fired into the camper from assault rifles. His friend took cover in a bathroom and was unharmed, but Lopez was struck and died at the scene.

The Fort Smith Police Department identified and arrested five suspects: 19-year-old Bryan Porras, 19-year-old Ryan Oxford, 18-year-old Alberto Chavez, 16-year-old Jorge Chirinos, and Porras’s 18-year-old girlfriend Mariah Crocker. Police described the shooting as gang-related, saying Lopez’s name appeared on a list of people who had allegedly disrespected a gang known as Slanga96. Investigators recovered an AK-47 at Oxford’s residence and an AR-15 at Porras and Crocker’s apartment; that apartment also yielded drugs and other weapons. The male suspects were charged with first-degree murder and a terroristic act, with the 16-year-old charged as an adult, and Crocker faced felony drug and firearm charges.

Did anyone in Fort Smith have information about Justin Lopez, his movements that night, or the individuals named?