Mother makes plea to public to help catch daughter’s killer

that this investigation is going to come to a good end,” said Luciano’s mother, Janet Porras. “We’re going to find who did this. It’s not fair. You took my baby away.”

The shooting happened about 2:30 a.m. and was captured on city surveillance cameras, Orlando police Detective Michael Fields said at the press conference.

The person in the white pickup was seen shooting into the Challenger that Luciano and two others were in, then fleeing “very, very, very fast and passing people on the shoulder of the road,” Fields said.

Luciano, David Zanone, 25, and Lorraine Pagan, 34, were taken to a hospital, where Luciano died. All three were shot. Zanone was critically injured.

Fields said detectives are investigating the shooting as a “random act,” but couldn’t say how many shots were fired or whether more than one person were believed have shot at the car.

Porras said she feels “confident” the case will be solved after police were able to identify photos of the suspect vehicle.

“Now we have the truck. We know what we’re looking for,” she said.

Multiple other vehicles were at the intersection during the time of the shooting, Fields said. Porras, wearing donning a blue shirt with the hashtag “#justiceforcarola,” held back tears as she pleaded for witnesses to come forward.

“Please, it’s going to be confidential. Don’t be scared,” she said.

A generous woman with ambitious plans for her future, Luciano valued family and loved animals, her mother said.

“You might need $10 and that’s all she has. She will give that to you,” Porras said.

The recent holiday season without her daughter was tough.

New Year’s “was probably my worst day,” Porras said.

Porras will miss getting calls from her daughter asking her for recipes or how to make a cleaning solution for her bathroom, which gave her the feeling “that our relationship was getting even better because finally she realized, ‘Oh, this is what mom did,’” Porras said with a smile.

“Now I don’t have those phone calls,” she said.

Anyone with information can report a tip anonymously through Crimeline at 1-800-423-8477.