Steven Lopez was an 18-year-old Hispanic male from El Paso who was fatally shot on November 11, 2021, while sitting in a parked car at J.P. Shawver Park in the Lower Valley. He was with a 16-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl; the 16-year-old was also killed and the 14-year-old was injured but survived. Witness accounts and the investigation initially described the attack as a possible drive-by but were later clarified: the suspects approached the parked car on foot and fired multiple shots before fleeing in a vehicle. The motive has not been disclosed.

Following the shootings, the El Paso Police Department and the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force identified and arrested multiple suspects. Two men from El Paso’s Mission Valley, 17-year-old Miguel Angel Marin and 32-year-old Martin Rodriguez, were charged with capital murder; Marin was taken into custody on November 11, 2021, and Rodriguez on November 24, 2021. Another suspect, 18-year-old Ricardo Styles De La Rosa, who was already jailed on an unrelated charge, was later charged with capital murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Marin later pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 40 years on April 11, 2023; other defendants’ cases were pending.

Does anyone have information about that evening at Shawver Park or saw anything in the Lower Valley around November 11, 2021?