Isaiah Zay Miguel Rosales was 13 when he was killed at Kensington Park in Longmont on August 20, 2022. He and a 15-year-old cousin were playing basketball when a car drove by and at least ten shots were fired. Isaiah was struck in the chest and died; his cousin was shot in the leg and a third person with them was uninjured. Isaiah’s family and neighbors held a candlelight vigil at the court; friends remembered him as someone who was always making people laugh and noted he was a week from his fourteenth birthday.

Longmont police located a silver Ford Focus matching the suspect vehicle within minutes and arrested 19-year-old Yahir Solis inside the car. Officers recovered a handgun and a bullet or shell casing in the vehicle. An investigation noted a possible link to an earlier gang altercation at the Boulder County Fairgrounds and reports of threatening Instagram messages. Solis was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, multiple counts of attempted first-degree murder, and related weapons and resisting charges, and was held in Boulder County Jail without bond.

Did anyone see Isaiah or the group at Kensington Park that afternoon who can add details about what happened?