On September 28, 2020, 18-year-old Jorge Portillo was driving a black pickup on Fry Boulevard in Sierra Vista when a red Honda coupe pulled up alongside and someone inside fired multiple rounds into his truck. Four shots struck the driver’s side; one penetrated the rear driver’s side window, passed through the headrest and struck Portillo in the head. His pickup left the road and stopped in a nearby wash. Portillo was taken to Canyon Vista Medical Center and pronounced dead.

Witnesses at the scene identified the red Honda, which was later found abandoned at an apartment complex. The car was registered to 20-year-old Rick Walter Martin, who surrendered to police within 24 hours and was charged with first-degree murder and multiple related felonies. Authorities said Martin had an extensive criminal history and was on federal probation; investigators tied the shooting to an earlier conflict after Portillo’s girlfriend had a minor crash with a vehicle registered to Martin’s mother and an alleged assault on Portillo weeks earlier.

Does anyone have information about the days before the shooting or about the earlier altercation that might help clarify what happened?