Travis Nelson, a 41-year-old Black man, was killed in Flagstaff, Arizona, in the early morning hours of May 13, 2021. Police were alerted shortly after 2:00 a.m. when a woman entered a Walmart on South Woodlands Village Boulevard and asked employees to call the police for her. Officers report the woman, 36-year-old Ashley Nicole Martin, told them she had just shot someone and led them to a nearby urban trail between the Walmart and Beulah Boulevard, where Nelson’s body was found.

Detectives investigated at the scene and Martin was taken to the police department for questioning, then arrested and booked into the Coconino County Detention Facility. Prosecutors charged Martin with second-degree murder; she initially pleaded not guilty and her attorney said she would argue self-defense. In May 2022 Martin, then 37, entered a plea agreement in Coconino County Superior Court and pleaded guilty except insane to a reduced charge of manslaughter, a class 2 felony.

Did anyone in Flagstaff know Travis Nelson or observe him in the area around May 13, 2021?