Alejandro Gonzalez-Santos was 16 when he was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head in his Woodrow Avenue home in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, on the evening of Friday, January 26, 2018. An initial emergency call reported a fall down the stairs, but a second caller said someone had been shot. Alejandro was a junior at Egg Harbor Township High School and worked as a cashier at the ShopRite in Somers Point; he also had seasonal work at Castaway Cove on the Ocean City boardwalk.

A 17-year-old male student at the same high school was arrested and charged with aggravated manslaughter and weapons offenses; his name was not released because of his age. The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office did not immediately disclose a motive or the detailed circumstances leading up to the shooting. The community offered grief counseling at the high school, a neighbor set up a GoFundMe to help the family with funeral expenses, and a visitation and funeral service were held.

Did anyone who knew Alejandro or was at the school that week notice anything out of the ordinary leading up to his death?