In the early hours of June 7, 2018, 20-year-old Emilio Valdez left his mother’s home on Oliver Street in Pontiac, Michigan and was seen getting into a black Pontiac Grand Prix. Witnesses heard several gunshots as the car sped away; family members could not reach him afterward. His body was found the next day in Osmun Lake. An autopsy showed he had been shot in the chest and head and was still alive when placed into the water.

Investigators later found the Grand Prix in Sylvan Lake; it had been reported stolen by Guadalupe Maria Davila-Rodriguez. Inside the car were a spent shell casing, blood, and Valdez’s cell phone. Detectives said Valdez likely knew his killer because he would not have willingly entered a car with a stranger. In April 2022 authorities arrested Angel Jose Alvarez, charged with open murder and a firearms offense, and charged Davila-Rodriguez and Juan Diego Hernandez as accessories after the fact. In July 2024 Alvarez was convicted of second-degree homicide and sentenced; Davila-Rodriguez and Hernandez pleaded no contest to reduced charges.

Does anyone have memories of Emilio or recall sightings of that black Pontiac Grand Prix around Pontiac or Sylvan Lake in June 2018?