Pedro Omar Baez Esperanza was 31 when he was found with a gunshot wound near 14th and Vine streets in North Little Rock on a Tuesday afternoon in November 2016. First responders took him to a local hospital, where he died shortly after arrival. The North Little Rock Police Department investigated the incident as a homicide.

Investigators identified Charles Brent Gant as a suspect and located him in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, a little over a week after Esperanza’s death. Gant was charged with first-degree murder; that arrest followed the testimony of a single witness who said they had seen the slaying. At the time he was picked up on the homicide charge, Gant was already incarcerated in Florida on drug convictions.

In October 2017 prosecutors dropped the first-degree murder charge after the lone witness recanted their identification and testimony, and Gant was returned to Florida to continue serving his sentence for the earlier convictions. Does anyone have additional information about the shooting or knew Pedro’s movements that week in November 2016?