On the evening of September 14, 2017, 19-year-old Eric Diaz of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was shot and later died at Bridgeport Hospital. Around 10 p.m. at the intersection of Beardsley Street and Newfield Avenue, Diaz entered the front passenger seat of a Nissan sedan. Witnesses heard a single gunshot, saw him fall out of the vehicle and try to walk before collapsing on the sidewalk. Police found him with a gunshot wound to the stomach; he was transported to the hospital and died a few hours later. The shooting was Bridgeport’s 20th homicide of the year.

Investigators traced the case to 53-year-old Lonnie Mebane of Stratford. Police say Mebane arranged to buy heroin from Diaz as part of a planned robbery, waited in his father’s car at the East End intersection, and shot Diaz after he entered the vehicle. Detectives identified Mebane as the primary suspect and arrested him at his residence on November 15, 2017; he was charged with murder, felony murder and first-degree robbery and held on $1 million bond.

Did anyone in Bridgeport see Diaz that night or have information about the meeting at Beardsley and Newfield?