Seventeen-year-old Mario Sanchez Mendieta was fatally shot on July 23, 2020, near the George Floyd memorial in Minneapolis. The shooting took place outside a market on the 3500 block of Chicago Avenue after an earlier encounter between Mario and another male inside the store. According to reports, the other individual followed Mario outside and shot him multiple times before fleeing on foot.

Officers found the teenager without a pulse and performed CPR; Mario was revived at the scene but died shortly after at a local hospital. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide from multiple gunshot wounds. Investigators said they believed the victim and the shooter knew each other, but no suspect information was released and no arrests had been made at the time of the reports.

Mario’s family set up a GoFundMe to cover funeral expenses and to return his body to Mexico so he could be buried near his grandfather. Does anyone have information about that evening or about people who might have known Mario in the neighborhood?