Luis Antonio Miranda Jr., 36, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of April 29, 2022, on Weld Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts. ShotSpotter alerted police around 1:01 a.m., and officers found Miranda as the sole occupant of a Chrysler Sebring with multiple gunshot wounds; paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.

The investigation involved Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office, New Bedford Police detectives, and prosecutors from the Homicide Unit. In May 2022, two men were arrested: 41-year-old Jonathan Medina Perez of Fall River, charged with murder and two counts of armed assault with intent to murder, and 33-year-old Jonsthan Goncalves of New Bedford, charged as an accessory to murder before the fact and accessory to murder after the fact. Prosecutors described the shooting as a targeted, planned attack and said gunfire came from a rented 2022 Honda CRV rented by Perez; both men were said to have met at a hotel in Somerset before and after the shooting and were arraigned in New Bedford District Court and held without bail.

Miranda worked in construction and was remembered as likable and outgoing who treasured time with his family, especially his young son. Did anyone in the area see the Chrysler Sebring or the rented 2022 Honda CRV around Weld Street that night?