On the afternoon of September 3, 2018, deputies from the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home in the 2700 block of West 5th Street and found three men with apparent gunshot wounds. One of the victims was 24-year-old Javier Sanchez, a Hispanic laborer in the area. The other two victims were identified as 20-year-old Grady Baxter and 19-year-old Nicholas Grabbe, both residents of Yuma.

Investigators said they did not believe the killings were random and called in the Yuma Police Department’s Crime Scene Unit to process evidence at the scene. A person of interest, Jimmie Roy Jordan, was later sought for questioning and was taken into custody; he was linked to the triple murder and ultimately pleaded guilty to an amended charge of second-degree murder as part of a plea agreement. The case experienced delays related to outsourcing evidence to an external lab and COVID-19–related processing challenges.

If anyone knew Javier, his activities that day, or saw anything unusual on West 5th Street around September 3, 2018, please share what is known.