Marcos Armando Nino was a 22-year-old Hispanic/Latino father of three described by family as happy, outgoing, and always smiling. He was shot and killed the afternoon of Friday, October 7, 2022, in Tucson, Arizona, in what police say began as a road-rage confrontation.

Around 2:00 p.m. Marcos was driving a gold Jeep near East Benson Highway and South Sixth Avenue when investigators say he cut off a dark burgundy Kia Sorrento. Surveillance footage reportedly shows the Kia beside Marcos’s Jeep with the front-seat passenger hanging out the window holding a firearm. A security guard heard two or three gunshots; Marcos crashed into a guardrail and was pronounced dead at the scene with a gunshot wound to the head. Cartridge casings were recovered near where the Kia had been.

On November 1, 2022, Tucson police stopped the Kia and identified the passenger as 29-year-old Robert Anthony Vasquez. Officers saw him with a handgun and found a firearm under his seat; the gun’s caliber was reportedly the same as the one used to kill Marcos. Vasquez allegedly told police he did not shoot but only had to show the driver his gun. He was arrested and booked on first-degree murder and weapons misconduct charges; the criminal case was pending as of his arrest.

Did anyone in Tucson see the two vehicles together that afternoon or have information about the confrontation?