On August 12, 2003 at around 3:00 a.m. Esequiel Barrientos, Jr was shot in the chest during an altercation in a shopping center parking lot at 5206 Telephone Road. It appeared a brief struggle took place between him and the suspect(s). On the evening of August 11, 2003 Mr. Barrientos and his co-workers went to El Gallo De Oro, a neighborhood bar about a block away from where his body was found. His co-workers left around midnight but he stayed until the bar closed at 2:50 a.m. He had loaned his car to a friend and was walking home from the bar when he was killed. It appears he was shot around 3:00 a.m. but his body was not discovered until 5:00 a.m. by a Metro bus driver.