Shortly after 3:00 a.m. on June 22, 2019, gunfire erupted in the McDonald’s parking lot at 1260 E. Robinson Avenue in Springdale, Arkansas. Officers found two men with gunshot wounds; 18-year-old Carlos Alexander Ascencio was pronounced dead at the scene and a 20-year-old man, Juan Carlos Bahena-Garcia, was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Witnesses said the shooter or shooters left in a white passenger car carrying several people. Springdale police developed 21-year-old Franklin Soto-Ramos of Lowell, Arkansas, as a suspect and obtained an arrest warrant charging capital murder and attempted capital murder. Soto-Ramos was located and taken into custody near Indianapolis on June 22, 2019, and later booked into the Washington County jail; investigators said the probe was ongoing and additional arrests were possible.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Springdale Police Department or the anonymous tip line.