Hugo Nunez, a 40-year-old resident of Mecca, California, was fatally shot multiple times outside his home on Fifth Street on April 8, 2018. Neighbors rushed him to Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, but he died less than two hours later. The shooting followed heated phone calls tied to family disputes after a woman identified as A.R. threatened to expose alleged bad behavior by Nunez’s brother.

Authorities say Gilbert Contreras Martinez Jr., 36, a probationer from Coachella who was romantically involved with someone connected to the family, armed himself with several handguns and drove to the residence. When Hugo Nunez stepped outside, Martinez allegedly fired a semiautomatic weapon, hitting Nunez in the chest four times. Martinez was arrested and faced murder and weapons charges; jurors later acquitted him of first- and second-degree murder and were deadlocked on voluntary manslaughter, while convicting him of being a felon in possession of a loaded firearm.

Who in Mecca might have seen or heard anything that night and can help clarify the sequence of events?