On the early morning of July 16, 2012, 29-year-old Daniel de Abreu and his friend Safiro Furtado were killed in a drive-by shooting in Boston’s South End theater district while stopped at a red light. A third occupant of the vehicle was wounded and two others fled unharmed. De Abreu and Furtado, who had served in the military together in Cape Verde before immigrating to the United States, were pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators eventually focused on former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. Prosecutors said the shootings grew out of an earlier nightclub incident in which de Abreu allegedly bumped Hernandez and spilled his drink; they relied heavily on testimony from Alexander Bradley, who said Hernandez fired on the car and later shot Bradley in the face to silence him. The defense instead accused Bradley of being the shooter and suggested a drug deal motive. After more than 37 hours of deliberation, a jury found Hernandez not guilty of the double murders in April 2017; he was convicted separately of unlawful firearm possession.

Did anyone who knew Daniel recognize him from that night or have information about the events leading up to the shooting?