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A spring 2020 shootout in a Denver neighborhood left 36-year-old Jose Contreras dead. On the evening of April 11, an argument in the 1600 block of South Tennyson Street escalated into gunfire just before 8 p.m.; witnesses reported seeing a man fire about 10 shots and then flee in a white sedan. Contreras was shot and later died in the back seat of a car while others tried to get him to a hospital.

Fifteen-year-old Fabian Medina also died of multiple gunshot wounds; a third male was injured and survived. The Denver Office of the Medical Examiner classified both Contreras’ and Medina’s deaths as homicides. Authorities identified and briefly detained persons of interest—19-year-old Guadalupe Villanueva, arrested and held for investigation of First Degree Murder then released two days later without charges, and 18-year-old Amaya Wild, taken into custody on felony counts of accessory to a crime—but the case remains officially unsolved.

Does anyone have information about that April 11 evening or recall the white sedan seen leaving the scene?