Nakeena Youngman, 40, of Salt Lake City, was visiting friends in Ogden on the evening of April 2, 2025, when she was found lying in the road on the 400 block of 800 North with a single gunshot wound to her upper chest. Emergency responders took her to a local hospital, where she died. Youngman was a mother of six and a grandmother; family remembered her as vibrant, joyful, and the life of the party who enjoyed cooking, dancing and singing with her children and granddaughter.
Investigators traced the incident to an apartment where Youngman had been earlier that night. Witnesses reported an argument between Youngman and another woman, 37-year-old Ana María Zaragoza, after which both left the apartment and a gunshot was heard; witnesses also saw a silver Nissan Altima leaving the area. Police say Zaragoza disposed of her phone and the gun, traveled to Los Angeles and bought a ticket to Mexico but did not board, then returned to Utah. She was arrested April 13, 2025, after a high-speed traffic stop that turned up drugs and a firearm. Zaragoza later admitted she retrieved a gun from her car, reapproached Youngman, called out to her, and fired a single round into her chest; the Weber County District Attorney charged her with murder and related offenses.
Did anyone in the area on April 2, 2025, see the silver Nissan Altima or the two women leaving the apartment?