On New Year’s Day 2018, 31-year-old Manuel Valenzuela was fatally shot on Tucson’s south side. Police were called for reports of gunfire just after 4 a.m. near the 100–200 block of West Bilby Road; officers found his body lying in the roadway with clear gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The shooting was quickly classified as a homicide and the stretch of Bilby Road was closed while investigators worked the scene.

Detectives learned Valenzuela had been in the neighborhood with his adult brother shortly before the shooting; the brother was located nearby uninjured and was interviewed as a witness, not as a suspect. Investigators said multiple people were in the area and canvassed neighbors while appealing to the public for tips via 88-CRIME. More than a year later no arrests or publicly named suspects had been announced, though an online homicide database later listed the case as solved without providing details. If anyone knew Manny, who was remembered by family and friends as funny and cool, please share what you know with Tucson police or call 88-CRIME.