Jose Luis Gomez was a 23-year-old Hispanic man from Lubbock, Texas who died of gunshot wounds on July 10, 2017. The shooting occurred in Wagner Park in Lubbock after an argument over possession of a backpack with 29-year-old Stephen Joseph Buckley Jr., according to eyewitnesses. Bystanders tried CPR and Gomez was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Buckley fled the scene and was later arrested in Levelland, Texas. He was charged with murder and held on a $300,000 bond. Investigators reported Gomez and his brother had arranged to meet Buckley to purchase marijuana; Buckley claimed the meeting was a setup and that he was the target of a robbery. Prosecutors nonetheless pursued prison time given the shooting took place in a public park.

In October 2019 Buckley accepted a plea to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and bodily injury and received a 15-year prison sentence. Does anyone have additional details about the meeting that led to the argument or recollections from Wagner Park that day?