On the late afternoon of September 18, 2023, eighteen-year-old Bryan Antonio Torres was found unresponsive in the roadway on South Fremont Avenue near East Calle Nevada in Tucson. First responders initially thought a traffic crash had occurred, but Tucson Fire Department personnel discovered gunshot trauma; Torres was pronounced dead at the scene. Family remembered him as a sweet, charming young man with a bright smile and a talented soccer player.

The same afternoon investigators located a second victim, 18-year-old Emir Arreola-Morales, seated in a passenger vehicle down the street near South Park Avenue and East Irvington Road; he had also died of gunshot wounds. Tucson Police Department detectives treated the incident as a double homicide and processed the scenes for evidence.

By September 22, 2023, two teenage suspects had been identified. Sixteen-year-old Jacob Sosa was arrested near South Mission Road and West Irvington Road and booked on two counts of first-degree murder and armed robbery. Seventeen-year-old Trystn Montoya was located in Clovis, New Mexico, after Clovis authorities linked him to a separate homicide; an arrest warrant in the Tucson case named him on two counts of first-degree murder and armed robbery and he was being held in the Lea County Detention Facility pending extradition.

If anyone saw activity on South Fremont Avenue or near East Irvington Road that afternoon, or knew Bryan’s movements that day, please share what was observed with investigators.