On the evening of December 8, 2022, 28-year-old Eduardo Antonio Uzueta was shot and killed in Phoenix, Arizona while on a family outing to look at Christmas lights. Uzueta had parked in the 6600 block of West Fillmore Street to have a smoke when a group of men he and his family did not know approached. An unprovoked assault escalated to multiple gunshots. Uzueta returned to the car, told his girlfriend he’d been wounded, and they drove to a relative’s home where emergency services ultimately transported him to a hospital; he later died of his injuries.

Investigators recovered a cellphone at the scene with texts indicating a plan among several people to meet at the nearby Sunridge Park and commit armed robberies. One man implicated 19-year-old Isaiah Joshua Nash, saying Nash pistol-whipped Uzueta, then shot him multiple times. On December 16, 2022, Phoenix police arrested Nash and charged him with first-degree murder and armed robbery in connection with the killing.

Did anyone in the community see that group near Sunridge Park or have information about the planning messages on the recovered phone?