Alejandro Suarez, 43, was shot to death the night of June 16, 2022, in the 70200 block of Highway 111 in Rancho Mirage, near the Rancho Mirage RV & Mobile Home Village and a Shell gas station. Deputies from the Palm Desert Sheriff’s Station arrived after a report of a shooting at about 10:17 p.m. and found Suarez with multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead there.

Riverside County authorities identified and arrested two Desert Hot Springs residents in connection with the homicide: 19-year-old Joseph Samuel Runyon and 36-year-old Leslie Martinez. Both were booked into the John J. Benoit Detention Center on June 22, 2022. Runyon was held without bail on suspicion of murder; Martinez faced multiple charges including murder, willful harm to a child, and being an accessory, with bail set at $500,000. Motive and the precise relationship between Suarez and the suspects were not disclosed.

Did anyone in the Rancho Mirage or Desert Hot Springs area see activity on Highway 111 that night or have information about Suarez’s movements before the shooting?