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In the early morning hours of January 16, 2014, gunfire on Myrtle Street in New Bedford left 23-year-old Patrick Alves with life-threatening gunshot wounds. He was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital and pronounced deceased. Investigators from the New Bedford Police Department, Massachusetts State Police and the District Attorney’s office responded to multiple 911 calls and began reconstructing his final hours.

Police found Alves’s cellphone and ID missing from the scene. Later that month authorities arrested 27-year-old Nicholas Gonzalez of Fairhaven on accessory after the fact to murder and two counts of witness intimidation; prosecutors alleged Gonzalez took Alves’s phone, lied about it and tried to destroy it by flushing it, though investigators recovered the device. In early February a second man, 19-year-old Gerron Harper of Brockton, was charged as an accessory after the fact for allegedly disposing of another phone said to have been used to set up Alves that night.

Despite those arrests, no one has been formally charged with shooting Patrick Alves. Does anyone have information about that January 16 night or the people involved?