On June 10, 2015, 22-year-old Marco Cardenas of West Valley City, Utah, was shot and killed after a dispute on a Utah Transit Authority bus escalated. A verbal argument about rival gang affiliations led Cardenas and a 15-year-old boy to agree to step off the bus and fight. The confrontation moved to the street near the Burger King at 3500 South and 5600 West, where the 15-year-old produced a handgun and fired multiple shots. Cardenas was struck, taken to a hospital, and pronounced dead.

The shooter, later identified as Marqus Paul James, fled briefly but was captured nearby and charged. Prosecutors sought to try him as an adult; by October 2015 he pleaded guilty in adult court to manslaughter with a gang enhancement, a first-degree felony, and in juvenile court to shooting at a person, a third-degree felony. The plea called for James to remain in juvenile detention until he turned 21, at which point his adult sentence would be decided. Cardenas’s family said he had learning disabilities and the mental capacity of a young teenager and may have been vulnerable in seeking friendship and acceptance.

Did anyone in West Valley City know Marco or have information about his activities on that bus that evening?