On the evening of Sunday, July 23, 2023, a shooting in southwest Omaha left 28-year-old Luis Romero Rodriguez dead. Omaha police responded to the Citadel Apartments near South 86th Parkway and Q Street and found two people shot inside a car; Rodriguez was pronounced dead at the scene while a 24-year-old man was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.

Within days investigators identified multiple suspects and three people were taken into custody. Thirty-four-year-old Luis Hernandez-Melendez was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree felony assault, and two counts of using a gun to commit a felony. Twenty-eight-year-old Alvin Melendez was charged with being an accessory to a felony and tampering with physical evidence, and 30-year-old Valeria Vasquez was charged as an accessory to a felony. The Omaha Police Department was assisted by the Ashland Police Department, the Saunders County Sheriff’s Department, and the Nebraska State Patrol.

If anyone has information about the shooting at the Citadel Apartments on July 23, 2023, please come forward.