In the early morning hours of October 28, 2024, a shooting near 67th Avenue and Highland Avenue in west Phoenix left 34-year-old Jose Carlos Jimenez and 21-year-old Marquez Anthony Demarcus Booker dead. Officers arrived around 3:20 a.m. and found both men suffering from gunshot wounds; neither survived and were pronounced deceased at the scene.

Investigators focused on a 20-year-old suspect, Jessie James Olvera, who fled on foot after the shooting. Detectives located Olvera at a Peoria residence near 73rd Avenue and Sanna Street, and after a barricade he was taken into custody. During questioning he made statements implicating himself in the shooting and was booked on multiple felonies, including two counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of Jimenez and Booker.

The community mourned the two men while the legal process moved forward. If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about either victim’s activities in west Phoenix that night, please come forward.