Angel Reyes Martinez, 35, was found with gunshot trauma at Manuel Herrera Jr. Park on the Southside of Tucson in the early morning of September 10, 2024, after a 9-1-1 caller reported an unresponsive man. Officers and Tucson Fire Department personnel attempted life-saving measures but Martinez was pronounced dead at the scene; his family was notified.

Detectives linked Martinez to an armed robbery just hours earlier, around 1:00 a.m., at a smoke shop on E. Speedway Blvd. Investigators say Martinez and an accomplice, both armed, demanded money, assaulted a store employee who suffered non-life-threatening sharp-force injuries, and fired a gun that did not hit the employee. Homicide detectives identified the accomplice as 26-year-old Alejandro Ray Gamez and believe Gamez fatally shot Martinez at the park later that morning.

Gamez was later located on September 14, 2024, by patrol officers on Tucson’s Westside; after a vehicle associated with him pulled into an apartment complex on N. Stone Ave., he exited and fired on a TPD Sergeant’s patrol car and was pronounced deceased at the scene by Tucson Fire Department personnel. No officers or other community members were injured in that confrontation.

If anyone witnessed the Speedway Blvd. robbery, saw Martinez or Gamez that night, or has other information, please come forward with what was seen.