On the night of Sunday, April 13, 2025, 24-year-old Luis Esquivel was shot and killed after leaving a party at a banquet hall in eastern Las Vegas. Officers from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department responded to gunfire in a parking lot near the 3900 block of East Owens Avenue at about 1:31 a.m. Two men found with gunshot wounds were pronounced dead at the scene: Luis Esquivel and 21-year-old Carlos Garcia Sanchez. Authorities said a verbal dispute at the event escalated into the shooting, and the motive had not been established.

Within days investigators made arrests. Julio Bautista-Martinez, 24, was taken into custody and charged with two counts of murder on April 16, 2025, and ordered held without bail. A second suspect, 26-year-old Henry Ramirez, was booked on two counts of open murder the following day at the Clark County Detention Center.

If anyone was at the banquet hall that night or saw activity in the parking lot near Owens Avenue and Pecos Road, did you notice anything that could help clarify what started the dispute?