Juan Carlos Anaya Hernandez was 24 when he was fatally shot on the morning of July 16, 2022, while working as a landscaper at the Assembly Alexandria apartments in Alexandria, Virginia. He had settled in the city with his family after fleeing violence in El Salvador and was known in the complex for serenading neighbors. Hernandez was working alongside his stepfather, 48-year-old Adrian de Jesus Rivera Guzman, when both men were struck during a series of crimes at the complex; one died at the scene and the other was taken to a hospital and later pronounced dead.

Police identified 27-year-old Francis Deonte Rose as a person of interest and took him into custody the day of the shootings; he was initially arrested on burglary charges and later charged in connection with the deaths. The investigation indicated Rose had been involved in a burglary at the apartments and had allegedly broken into the same complex about three weeks earlier. Several months before the killings, Rose had been released from custody in Arlington County after prosecutors dropped drug and weapons charges when a judge ruled a search unconstitutional.

Does anyone have information about Juan Carlos Hernandez, his work that morning, or what happened at the Assembly Alexandria apartments on July 16, 2022?