A quiet Santa Fe neighborhood was rocked in the predawn hours of June 19, 2023, when 27-year-old Raul Rene Montejano Jr. was found unconscious with an apparent injury inside a home on the 4300 block of Camino Alhambra. A neighbor’s 911 call around 4 a.m. prompted officers to respond; inside the same residence a 56-year-old woman was located with gunshot wounds and taken to a hospital. Montejano Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene by the Office of the Medical Investigator.

Investigators identified a suspect and obtained an arrest warrant for 29-year-old Francisco Javier Grado-Flores of Santa Fe, charging him with murder and tampering with evidence. Grado-Flores was located two days later in Wichita, Kansas, with apparent injuries he said came from a fight, and was booked in Sedgwick County as a fugitive from justice pending extradition.

Was anyone in the Camino Alhambra area on June 19 who saw or heard anything that could help clarify what happened that night?