Darryl Hughes, 59, was shot in a midtown Tucson parking lot on the evening of February 5, 2022. Officers who responded found him with gunshot trauma; he was taken to a nearby hospital and died shortly after arrival. His death was investigated as a homicide.

Darryl worked in HVAC repair, employed by Advantage Air Mechanical and formerly at Breeze Heating and Cooling. Originally from Philadelphia, he served in the Navy, and was a husband, father of one son, grandfather of three, and one of eight siblings. Family and coworkers remembered him as a great coworker and dear friend.

On March 17, 2022, Tucson police arrested 38-year-old Reginald Buckhanon and charged him with second-degree murder in connection with Hughes’s death; Buckhanon was booked into the Pima County Jail on $1 million bond. If anyone knew Darryl or saw activity in that parking lot the evening of February 5, please share what you remember.