Hector Manuel Garcia Gomez, 46, of Palmerton, was shot and killed in a Whitehall Township parking lot along MacArthur Road on December 7, 2024. Officers arrived after reports of gunfire at about 6:03 p.m.; Garcia Gomez was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso and was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, where he was pronounced dead at 7:43 p.m. The Lehigh County Coroner ruled the cause of death gunshot wounds and classified the manner as homicide.

Investigators say surveillance footage captured Garcia Gomez arriving at the store with his wife, Brenda Rodriguez, who stayed in the vehicle while on the phone with Liz Pacheco. Prosecutors allege Garcia Gomez had been involved in an affair with a neighbor of 35-year-old Christian Martinez-Ramos of Allentown. Authorities charged Martinez-Ramos and Pacheco in connection with the killing; Pacheco faces additional charges including aggravated assault and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault. Police say multiple shots were fired from a vehicle that pulled in behind Garcia Gomez’s car and then fled; license plate reader data later linked the suspect vehicle to another vehicle owned by Martinez-Ramos.

Does anyone have information about the scene that night or about witnesses who might have seen the suspect vehicle?