Bernadino Santamarina, 22, was killed in Tucson on the night of March 9, 2021. Santamarina and a 23-year-old companion, Christopher Luiz Nunez, were sitting in a Honda Civic near Tucson Boulevard and Forgeus Avenue after an argument with another group in a nearby parking lot. While the two men were in the car, gunfire struck both of them; the vehicle then ran into a wall of an apartment complex. Responding officers found both men suffering from gunshot wounds and pronounced them dead at the scene.

The Tucson Police Department opened a homicide investigation, cleared the scene the following morning, and asked the public for help locating witnesses to the argument in the parking lot and the shooting. No suspects or arrests have been publicly identified. If anyone witnessed the confrontation that led to the shooting or has information that could assist the investigation, please come forward.