On the morning of July 5, 2016, 16-year-old Paris Anton Guston was shot and killed in Salt Lake City’s Fairpark neighborhood after a prank involving eggs. Paris, riding in the front passenger seat, threw an egg that went through the open window of another car and struck the driver, identified as Fortunato Villagrana. Villagrana returned to his home, retrieved an AK-47, and—along with Martin Antonio Cruz driving—pursued the teenagers’ vehicle. Villagrana leaned out of his passenger window and fired multiple shots from about a foot away; Paris was struck in the head and back and died at the scene.

Investigations stretched over years and across borders. Cruz was arrested in February 2017 and charged with murder. Villagrana fled to Mexico but was located after a tip and, following extradition, was returned to Salt Lake City in January 2022 and booked on one count of murder and three counts of felony discharge of a firearm. Paris’s family, including his mother Ashley Carter, actively sought leads during the long search.

Was anyone in the Fairpark neighborhood that night aware of the pursuit or able to help piece together what happened leading up to the shooting?