Ashley N. Maestas Casias, 33, was one of two women found fatally shot inside a mobile home at Valencia Trailer Park off State Road 522 in the El Prado area of Taos County on the evening of February 24, 2025. Deputies responding to a welfare check discovered Casias and Anastasia Stacey Romo dead of multiple gunshot wounds, turning the call into a double-homicide investigation.

Casias, from the Talpa community, was remembered by family as someone who loved being with her children, relatives and friends and enjoyed camping and shopping. Evidence collected at the trailer quickly led investigators beyond Taos County after authorities in Rio Arriba County located a person in Española who was believed to possess a vehicle belonging to one of the slain women.

That person was identified as Cesar Garcia of Taos. Garcia was already being taken into custody in connection with an unrelated fatal stabbing near the Ohkay Owingeh Travel Center on February 24; he was charged in that Rio Arriba County killing. Reports described him as a person of interest with a potential connection to the El Prado shootings because of his reported possession of the vehicle, but they did not state he had been charged in the double homicide.

Does anyone have information about Casias, her activities in late February 2025, or the vehicle linked to one of the victims?