Christian Miguel Barajas, 23, was shot and killed on the evening of November 22, 2017, in Medford, Oregon. Police were dispatched about 5:42 p.m. to the 300 block of Chestnut Street after calls of shots fired. Officers found Barajas unresponsive on the sidewalk and he was pronounced dead at the scene; an autopsy later found he had been shot four times.

Early leads included reports of a dark-colored minivan or a black Dodge Caravan leaving the area and surveillance video showing Barajas speaking with the driver of a minivan shortly before the shooting. Investigators recovered a firearm zipped inside an interior pocket of Barajas’s sweatshirt. A person of interest, Raul Meza-Solorio, was identified and search warrants were served, but the case stalled as witnesses were uncooperative and the investigation went cold while remaining open.

A re-interview of a key witness in October 2023 led detectives to implicate Meza-Solorio; the witness said Meza-Solorio confronted Barajas outside a market, then returned in a minivan and fired multiple shots from the passenger side. Meza-Solorio was arrested on November 1, 2023, and later pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison with three years of post-prison supervision. Does anyone have information about Barajas’s movements in Medford that day or recall seeing a dark minivan in the Chestnut Street area?