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On the evening of January 25, 2016, 71-year-old Juan Zayas of Springfield, Massachusetts, was fatally shot in his Brookline Avenue driveway as he and his wife were getting out of their car. Police pronounced him dead at the scene; witnesses reported screams but said they did not hear gunshots. Shell casings and cigarette butts were recovered at the scene.

DNA from one of the cigarette butts was later matched to 32-year-old Jose Villegas Rodriguez of Holyoke. Rodriguez was arrested on May 25, 2016, and during questioning he implicated 24-year-old Edward Gonzalez, also of Holyoke; Gonzalez was arrested the next day. Both men were indicted by a Hampden County grand jury on murder charges and arraigned in Hampden Superior Court.

The victim was from Caguas, Puerto Rico, and was the father of a Massachusetts State Trooper. Does anyone in Springfield remember seeing or hearing anything in that neighborhood on the evening of January 25, 2016?