On the night of July 14, 2019, 19-year-old Neko Noe Jardine was shot at a house party in West Valley City and later died at a hospital after emergency surgery. A recent Kearns High School graduate and standout football player described by family as a gentle giant, Jardine was at the party when two cars pulled up and occupants called for people to come outside. Witnesses say questions about gang affiliations preceded a fight; between 10 and 12 gunshots were fired and Jardine, who tried to keep his younger cousins from joining the brawl, was struck in the neck, chest, and torso. Two other men were wounded and survived.

West Valley City Police spent hundreds of hours on the investigation and initially arrested three men in October 2019 after ballistics linked two different 9mm handguns to the scene and surveillance showed a red sedan matching one suspect’s car. Those arrests did not result in filed charges. In January 2025 prosecutors charged Jose Antonio Flores-Carrillo, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, with murder and two counts of causing injury with a gun; charging documents say witnesses identified him as one of the partygoers seeking a fight and as a shooter. Jardine is described in the investigation as an innocent bystander killed while trying to defuse the situation.

Did anyone at the party or nearby that night see who arrived in the two cars or recognize the shooters?