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Gustavo Jarquin, an 18-year-old Hispanic man from Salt Lake City, was found dead the morning of September 18, 2014. A customer discovered his body lying face down in the grass on a street corner at Indiana Avenue and Pueblo Street in the Poplar Grove neighborhood just after 7:30 a.m. Medical crews confirmed he had been shot; police were unsure how long he had been there before being found.

Jarquin had recently graduated high school and was enrolled at Salt Lake Community College, studying toward a career in psychology. Family and friends remembered him as soft-spoken and community-minded — he volunteered as a basketball and soccer coach for more than 150 local children and served as a mentor through a university program. Police said they did not believe he was involved in gang activity.

The investigation produced an early person of interest who was cleared, and about a year later authorities arrested 37-year-old Nathan Andrew Johnson in California on obstruction charges tied to the case; Johnson later pleaded guilty to misdemeanors and was not charged with murder. No one has been arrested for Jarquin’s homicide and the case remains unsolved. Does anyone have information about Gustavo that could help bring answers to his family?