Ryan Hercher was 39 when he was shot in the early morning hours of May 2, 2019, in the parking lot of an apartment complex on the 4100 block of East 29th Street in Tucson. Neighbors reported hearing gunfire around 1:20–1:30 a.m., and a 911 caller said her boyfriend, Hercher, had been shot. Officers found him beside his vehicle with his girlfriend nearby; he was conscious at first, taken to Banner University Medical Center with life-threatening wounds, and pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Witnesses and Hercher’s girlfriend told detectives the shooting followed a confrontation in the parking lot that involved at least one other man; wounded, Hercher tried to drive away before his car crashed into a block wall. Latent palm prints recovered from the scene were later matched to 33-year-old Sean Rashad-Odell Howell, and Tucson Police announced that identification on January 1, 2021. Howell himself had been killed months earlier in a separate shooting on September 6–7, 2020. No one else has been publicly named or tried in connection with Hercher’s death.

Did anyone in Tucson know Ryan Hercher, frequent that east-side neighborhood, or have information about the events that night?