Toby Lee Uribe, 47, was working as a clerk at a Quick Mart on Tucson’s South Side in the early morning hours of December 19, 2020. Shortly before 3:00 a.m., two young men entered the store; one forced open a beer cooler while the other pointed a firearm at Uribe. After taking merchandise and leaving, one of the men shot Uribe.

Concern for Uribe’s welfare prompted a call to police shortly before 5:00 a.m. Officers found him at the Quick Mart at 6301 S. Park Ave. with evident gunshot trauma; Tucson Fire medics pronounced him deceased at the scene. A few hours later, a traffic collision at S. Park Ave. and E. Benson Hwy. produced a major break when officers at the crash recognized two passengers as matching descriptions of the suspects from the store.

Nineteen-year-old Isaias Gastelum-Arvizu and 18-year-old Omar Tello-Fierros were detained at the crash scene along with the vehicle’s driver, David Adrian Olvera. Detectives later arrested all three men; Gastelum-Arvizu, Tello-Fierros, and Olvera face charges of first-degree murder, armed robbery, aggravated robbery, and first-degree burglary, and Olvera faces additional traffic-related charges. Does anyone have information about that early-morning shift at the Quick Mart or about movements in that area around December 19, 2020?