On the evening of June 7, 2017, 28-year-old Hispanic man Jason Nieves was found dead inside a stolen SUV on the corner of Houston and Dodd avenues in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Firefighters called for a vehicle fire around 10 p.m. extinguished the blaze and discovered Nieves slumped in the front seat. An autopsy found he had been shot twice before the vehicle was intentionally set, making his death Bridgeport’s 13th homicide of the year.

Police investigators identified 34-year-old Anthony Arab Reeves as a suspect, alleging Reeves shot Nieves earlier that day while they were together in the stolen SUV. Detectives said Reeves later returned with a 62-year-old accomplice, Larry Tinsley; surveillance footage reportedly showed Reeves filling a bottle with gasoline and witnesses said Tinsley used it to douse the interior with Nieves still inside. Tinsley was reportedly paid $363 for his role.

Reeves was arrested in August 2017 on charges including murder, second-degree arson, and weapons offenses; the bullets that killed Nieves were reportedly matched to rounds Reeves allegedly fired in a separate June 12 incident. By April 2022 the prosecution’s case had weakened as witnesses disappeared or invoked the Fifth Amendment, and Reeves ultimately pleaded guilty under the Alford Doctrine to lesser charges and received a 15-year sentence. Does anyone have information about Nieves’s movements or who might have seen him on June 7, 2017?