In the early hours of August 7, 2017, gunfire in the area of 570 South Summer Street in Holyoke, Massachusetts, left two men dead. At just after 1:00 a.m., Holyoke police found 37-year-old Arnaldo Rentas and 31-year-old Colin Hodges on a second-floor rear porch with apparent gunshot wounds. Emergency crews pronounced both men dead at the scene.

Detectives from the Holyoke Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit assigned to the Hampden District Attorney’s Office opened an investigation. Investigators believe Rentas and Hodges had arrived at the apartment to visit when a confrontation led to several shots being fired; both men are thought to have tried to flee on foot after being shot. The motive was not released while the inquiry continued.

In the days after the killings, 19-year-old Ivan Ramos of Holyoke was publicly identified as a suspect and turned himself in to police on August 10, 2017; he was to be arraigned in Holyoke District Court on charges related to the deaths. Anyone with information about what happened that morning is asked to come forward.