On March 27, 2024, officers responded to a shooting in a parking lot at 820 W. I-240 Service Rd. in south Oklahoma City after 911 was called by 33-year-old Mauricio Martinez, who told the operator he had just shot his wife. Police found 30-year-old Mariana Flores-Salazar inside a vehicle with gunshot wounds. Martinez remained at the scene and was taken into custody by Oklahoma City Police and troopers from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Flores-Salazar was transported to a local hospital in critical condition and died of her injuries four days later. Martinez was initially booked on a complaint of domestic assault with a deadly weapon; after Flores-Salazar’s death the charges were amended to include first-degree murder, shooting with intent to kill, carrying or possessing a firearm by a convicted felon, domestic assault and battery with a deadly weapon, and reckless driving. Her death was listed as the 16th homicide in Oklahoma City for 2024.

If anyone has information about what happened that afternoon in the parking lot at 820 W. I-240 Service Rd., please share what is known with investigators.