On the evening of March 22, 2020, 27-year-old Jesse Dominguez was seated in his vehicle at the Magic Wand Car Wash in the 3000 block of East Fort Lowell Road in midtown Tucson when he was shot multiple times. Police found Dominguez gravely wounded in his car in the open parking area; he was struck by gunfire and pronounced dead at the scene. Mercado that turned into a shootout.

The white vehicle fled and was later found abandoned. Detectives focused on the occupants of that car and, on April 6, 2020, took 20-year-old Juan Mercado into custody and booked him on a first-degree murder charge. Mercado later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and related armed robbery counts; at a February 11, 2022, sentencing hearing a judge imposed concurrent prison terms that produced an effective additional term of about 16 years after credit for time already served.

Does anyone have memories of the car wash that night or information about what led to the confrontation?