On the evening of January 2, 2016, 19-year-old Omar Wilfredo Reyes of Everett, Massachusetts, received messages from an acquaintance, Jose Vasquez Ardon, asking to meet. Reyes walked to a rendezvous under the Tileston Street Bridge; surveillance cameras captured him approaching the underpass with three other people and then showed the others leaving without him.

Shortly after midnight on January 3, police found Reyes under the bridge with a single gunshot wound to the head and a 14-inch slash in his jacket. His headphones were still playing when a passerby discovered him. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital and died of his injuries on January 4. MS-13 graffiti was observed near the scene.

Investigators identified three suspects with alleged gang ties. Jose Vasquez Ardon and Cristian Nunez-Flores were arrested in late January 2016; a third man, Rigoberto Landaverde-Lemus, was charged later after his DNA and fingerprints matched evidence and clothing linked the three to the scene. All three were later convicted for their roles in Reyes’s killing.

Did anyone in Everett who knew Omar or was near the Tileston Street Bridge that night see something that hasn’t been shared publicly?