In the early morning hours of June 23, 2023, officers responded to reports of gunfire in the 1500 block of East Boulder Street in Colorado Springs. They found an adult woman deceased at the scene with a possible gunshot wound; she was later identified as 48-year-old Nancy Ann Mascareñas of Clovis, New Mexico. Nancy, born January 19, 1975, was a mother of two and a grandmother of two and was remembered as a loving daughter, sister, and friend who enjoyed making jewelry and taking photographs.

An autopsy was performed by the El Paso County Coroner’s Office; the official cause and manner of death remain pending while the death is treated as a homicide and listed as the city’s 13th homicide of 2023. Investigators later identified a suspect, and on July 17, 2023, an arrest warrant for First Degree Murder was obtained for 51-year-old Gilbert Lopez Jr.; he was already in the El Paso County Jail on unrelated charges when the warrant was issued.

If anyone has information about Nancy, her movements in Colorado Springs that night, or the incident on East Boulder Street, please share what is known.