Lidia Chinchilla De Carrillo, 62, traveled from El Salvador to Capitol Heights, Maryland, in March 2023 to grieve with family after her grandson died in a car crash. She had been in the United States about 24 hours when she was killed by a stranger’s gunfire on the evening of March 28, 2023.

De Carrillo was sitting in a car driven by her granddaughter, paused outside a relative’s home on Drumm Avenue, when another vehicle pulled up. A man later identified as Troy Medley of Baltimore emerged and opened fire on their car without any apparent reason; De Carrillo was struck in the back. Family members initially thought she was having a diabetic emergency until they found bullet holes in the vehicle. She was taken to a hospital and died of her wounds.

Surveillance footage and ballistics linked Medley to the shooting; prosecutors say a handgun recovered from his impounded vehicle matched the weapon used that night. Medley had prior convictions and was on probation at the time. Does anyone have information about the shooting or knew Lidia and her family?