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On December 1, 2025, 19-year-old Dominic Baysinger was fatally shot in the parking lot of Tempe Marketplace, near the RoadRunner Sports store. He had arranged a private online transaction on Facebook Marketplace to trade a gold ring and $240 for a handgun and met the sellers there in the morning with his girlfriend. Shortly after both parties exited their vehicles, gunshots were fired; Baysinger was pronounced dead at the scene from a gunshot wound to the neck. His girlfriend was present but not physically harmed.

Tempe Police used witness interviews and surveillance footage to identify and arrest two suspects. Fernando Gallegos was charged with first-degree murder and armed robbery; evidence from his phone, including screenshots of conversations with Baysinger about the planned robbery, linked him to the case and helped identify a second suspect. Authorities later arrested 25-year-old Dante Gaines, who faces first-degree murder and armed robbery with a deadly weapon charges. Investigators say the men had planned to rob Baysinger rather than complete the trade; the suspects fled after the shooting and attempted to discard their vehicle, which was later recovered with the ring inside.

Did anyone in the Tempe Marketplace area see the meeting or the vehicles involved that morning?