On September 1, 2020, 17-year-old Jorge Enrique Batres was shot and killed in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Police responded about 6:00 PM to the 1200 block of Hazelwood Street and found Batres inside a pickup truck with a gunshot wound to the head; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses saw someone fleeing, and officers established a perimeter and apprehended a 14-year-old male nearby.

Authorities charged the 14-year-old with second-degree murder and prosecuted him in adult court; he later pleaded guilty to second-degree unintentional murder and in December 2020 received a 12-year sentence, with the first eight years to be served in custody at Lino Lakes in a unit for juvenile offenders. Jorge Batres, born November 8, 2002 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, had moved to Minnesota about a year before his death, was preparing to enter his senior year at Anoka-Hennepin Regional High School and worked at a local trampoline park. His family described him as fun, loving, caring and protective of his sisters.

Does anyone have information about Jorge’s last known movements or was in the Hazelwood Street area that evening?