Olmero Lopez-Santos, a 42-year-old Hispanic male, was found unresponsive in his vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds in the parking lot of a shopping center at 1819 S. Pleasant Valley Road in Southeast Austin on November 29, 2022. Austin police responded to a shots fired call about 10:17 p.m.; Lopez-Santos was pronounced dead at the scene and the shooting was ruled a homicide, Austin’s 64th of 2022.

Initial public appeals yielded no immediate suspect information. In December 2022, investigators arrested 37-year-old Shane Alexander Taylor on burglary charges and recovered two firearms and ammunition. Ballistics testing through the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network tied casings from the Lopez-Santos crime scene to those weapons. Taylor was charged with murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and burglary of a building.

Are there witnesses who were in the Pleasant Valley Road shopping center that night or anyone with information about the events leading up to the shooting who can help?