On June 2, 2021, 36-year-old Adilson Neves was found in the roadway on David Street in New Bedford with a gunshot wound to his back. First responders arrived after 911 calls around 3:12 p.m. and rushed Neves to Saint Luke’s Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. He was discovered outside a grey Toyota Camry with a shattered driver’s side window and had $820 in his pocket. A gold iPhone recovered near his body contained messages showing a planned Percocet sale arranged earlier that day with a woman named Cheyanne Miranda.

Surveillance footage and a witness video showed a silver SUV at the scene; city cameras captured that SUV’s license plate, which was registered to Miranda. Miranda and her boyfriend, Daquan Blanchard, became the focus of the investigation. Miranda was arrested June 4, 2021; police reported finding an empty handgun holster in her vehicle and later recovered the Camry owner’s manual from trash outside her Fall River apartment. Blanchard fled but was arrested in Greenville, North Carolina, on June 15, 2021, after being located with U.S. Marshals.

Was anyone in the New Bedford area that afternoon aware of the silver SUV or the grey Camry before the shooting?