Matthew Travis Martinez was 22 when he was killed on September 27, 2016. A college student pursuing a nursing degree and a former Beeville resident, Martinez was born July 25, 1994, in Angleton and graduated from A.C. Jones High School in 2012.

Martinez was found at La Paloma Apartments on W. Rampart Drive with two other men, Pedro Garcia and Anthony Rodrigues; all three had multiple gunshot wounds. Jacob Brownson, who was in jail on an unrelated aggravated assault charge at the time, was accused in a murder warrant of killing the three men while his wife and three young children waited in a van outside the complex. Brownson’s trial began in 2023 after delays that included the COVID-19 pandemic and a recusal of the District Attorney’s Office when Joe Gonzales took office.

Anyone who knew Matthew, Pedro, or Anthony, or who has information about the shootings at La Paloma Apartments, is asked to come forward.