Late afternoon on March 30, 2022, Ulises Michael Rangel, 44, was found bleeding and unresponsive in the parking lot behind a Planet Fitness in Idaho Falls. First responders pronounced him dead at the scene from what appeared to be a gunshot wound; police immediately opened a homicide investigation.

Surveillance footage from a nearby ice cream parlor showed two people near a distinctive 1980 white Ford F350, then Rangel approaching the truck and engaging in an altercation with a man later identified as 37-year-old Jake D. Eilander of Bonneville County. The video captured no clear physical contact; a witness heard a gunshot about 3:30 p.m. and reported seeing Eilander and his girlfriend leave the scene. A .45 Winchester shell casing was recovered near Eilander’s truck.

A tip led officers to a St. Clair Avenue residence the same evening, where Eilander and the other person were found in a garage. Eilander was arrested without incident; a loaded handgun with ammunition consistent with the shell casing was recovered in the garage. Eilander was charged with second-degree murder. Rangel’s family and the community remain affected by his death.

If anyone was in the Planet Fitness parking lot that afternoon or has additional video or information, please come forward.