On the morning of November 20, 2018, 24-year-old Jesus Montiel called 911 to report he had been shot while walking on a trail near a wash in the southeast area of Las Vegas. The shooting occurred around 11:40 a.m. on the 3100 block of South Mojave Road. Emergency personnel transported Montiel to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center; his injuries were not initially described as life-threatening, but he died on Thanksgiving Day two days after the shooting. The Clark County coroner ruled the cause of death a gunshot wound to the abdomen and classified the death as a homicide.

Investigators say Montiel had been approached by two individuals while in the wash; after a brief conversation one of them shot him, and the pair fled north through the wash. Early suspect descriptions were two young men in their early 20s last seen wearing dark clothing. In July 2020 investigators arrested two teenagers, identified as Daniel Barron and Alejandro Morales-Trejo, who were 16 and 15 at the time of the shooting, on felony charges of murder with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit murder.

Does anyone have information about Montiel’s movements that morning or who those two men in the wash might have been?