Guadalupe Cordova, 33, was shot and killed in the late afternoon of August 9, 2025, in what Yakima Police described as an act of domestic violence on West Washington Avenue. Known as Lupita to those close to her, she was a mother of eight remembered by family as joyful, creative, devoted to her children, and passionate about gardening and cooking. Another person was injured in the shooting and survived with non-life-threatening wounds.

Police identified Guadalupe’s husband, 36-year-old Roberto Leyva-Sanchez, as the suspect. He fled the scene and was later found as a passenger in a vehicle stopped near East Walnut Avenue and 3rd Street. A confrontation followed in which Leyva-Sanchez reportedly fired at officers; they returned fire and fatally wounded him. A Yakima Police officer was shot, treated, and released. The vehicle’s driver, Leyva-Sanchez’s brother Ismael Sanchez-Morales, was arrested with non-life-threatening injuries and charged with multiple offenses including second-degree assault and eluding police.

Guadalupe’s mother has taken guardianship of six of the eight children, and the community has organized fundraisers to support the family. Does anyone in Yakima have information about the shooting or knew Lupita and her family?