On May 3, 2024, Taryn Allen, a 23-year-old woman from Texico, New Mexico, was shot and killed in Ned Houk Memorial Park just north of Clovis. She was killed alongside her friend, 23-year-old Samantha Harley Cisneros; both women were found by police near a silver minivan after a 911 caller reported two people down at about 4:30 p.m. Both victims had been shot multiple times. Cisneros’s 5-year-old daughter was found alive at the scene but critically injured with a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to a hospital in Lubbock, Texas. An infant car seat, a stroller, and a baby bottle were located at the scene, but Cisneros’s 10-month-old daughter, Eleia Maria Torres, was missing and an AMBER Alert was issued.

Investigators identified 26-year-old Alek Isaiah Collins as a suspect; cell phone data placed him near the park around the time of the killings. Collins was arrested on May 6, 2024, in Abilene, Texas, after an alleged carjacking of an Uber driver. The infant Eleia was recovered with him and was safely reunited with authorities. Collins was extradited to New Mexico to face charges and federal authorities had taken over the case by June 2024.

What details about that afternoon in the park or about Collins’s movements would help advance this investigation for readers who were in the area that day?