Richard Garza, a 30-year-old from Amarillo, Texas, was found slumped over in his car at Southeast Park on South Osage Street on December 17, 2019, with what appeared to be gunshot wounds. The Amarillo Police Department treated his death as a homicide and opened an investigation.

Police arrested Mollie Kristina Franklin, also known as Kristina Williams, on June 16, 2020, and a Randall County grand jury returned an indictment charging her with murder. The trial established that Garza was shot multiple times in the early morning of his 30th birthday and left in his car until a passerby discovered him the next day. A citizen later found the murder weapon in Medi Park Lake and turned it over to police; that discovery was described as important to the prosecution’s case.

Franklin was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 60 years in prison with no possibility of parole for 30 years. Does anyone have memories of Southeast Park or knew Richard and can share information that could add context to what happened that night?