On the night of March 22, 2019, in Phoenix, Arizona, 46-year-old Pablo Tinoco Ortega was fatally injured when a firearm discharged inside a home. Officers were told a group had gathered at the residence, where people were drinking and handling a gun when it went off and struck Pablo in the leg. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Police described the incident as a reported accidental shooting rather than an assault; news reports in the days after the death did not name any suspect or describe arrests or charges.

Obituaries show Pablo was born October 2, 1972, and was living in Phoenix at the time of his death. Funeral services were handled through Samaritan Funeral Home, with a visitation on March 29, 2019, a velación on March 28, and burial planned at Panteón La Paz in Cuernavaca, Morelos. He was survived by his mother Rafaela Ortega Núñez, siblings Baldemar, Cecilia, Juanita, Belizario, Marbella, and Hilda Tinoco Ortega, and children Hiliana Berenice, Steven, and Jason Tinoco. Public memorial pages and case trackers list his death as a shooting but contain no public updates about arrests or prosecutions.