On the night of May 24, 2021, 33-year-old Hispanic male Eraclio Hernandez Jr. was found in the street in the 1200 block of North 9th Street in Garden City, Kansas, after a reported shooting just after 11 p.m. Officers from the Garden City Police Department and emergency medical services responded; Hernandez was taken to St. Catherine Hospital and later pronounced dead from a gunshot wound.

The Garden City Police Department opened a homicide investigation and asked the public for information. In the days afterward investigators did not publicly release a motive or identify persons of interest, and no arrests or suspects have been reported in connection with the killing.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or about people who were in the area of North 9th Street after 11 p.m., please share what you know with Garden City law enforcement.