A shooting in the Palomino Valley area near Reno on the morning of July 9, 2024, left 46-year-old Indra Souza critically wounded. Washoe County deputies responded to a 9:45 a.m. call to a residence on the 5000 block of Microwave Drive and found Souza with a gunshot injury; he was taken to a local hospital for urgent care.

An 81-year-old housemate, Jimmy Lellan Shores, was arrested at the scene and initially charged with battery with the use of a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm and discharging a firearm in a prohibited area. No other suspects were identified. Souza died of his injuries on July 14, 2024, and detectives subsequently upgraded Shores’s charges to murder with the use of a deadly weapon. Authorities have not released a motive.

Did anyone in Palomino Valley see or hear anything that morning that could help clarify what happened?