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Mariano Gonzalez-Lopez, a 20-year-old Hispanic man, was shot and killed on April 6, 2017, at the Grove Place Apartments in Southeast Austin. The shooting followed an altercation over a parking space at the OK Corral Nightclub that escalated into a planned retaliatory attack.

Court documents say Kimberly Guadalupe Orozco, then 17, and Maria Del Rosario Diaz, 22, were arrested and charged with first-degree murder for their roles. Prosecutors allege Orozco and Diaz conspired with Jose Morales to lure Gonzalez-Lopez to the apartment complex and block him in so Morales could ambush him. Morales, armed with a rifle, fired multiple shots into Gonzalez-Lopez’s truck, killing him.

Morales was later convicted of murder and sentenced to 50 years. Diaz took a plea deal to testify against Orozco, pleading to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and receiving a 15-year sentence. Orozco pleaded not guilty and faced trial. Does anyone have information about the events that night or knew Mariano?