Jose De Jesus Fuentes Hernandez, 42, was a Columbus, Wisconsin business owner and father known for running Tequilas Bar and Grill and for being close to his son, Brayden. He had immigrated from Mexico at 15 and built a life in the community; customers remembered him as hospitable and charitable.

In the early hours of July 4, 2024, around 1:31 a.m., a Columbus police officer investigating what sounded like fireworks found Fuentes Hernandez in downtown Columbus suffering from gunshot wounds near his restaurant. Emergency responders took him to Prairie Ridge Health, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.

Authorities say the shooting followed a brief altercation at a bar with 22-year-old Jonathan Javier Luna. Police allege Luna returned to his apartment, retrieved a gun, then waited and fired as Fuentes Hernandez and a friend left; Fuentes Hernandez was shot when he came back out of a doorway. Video from the public helped identify the suspect, who was later located and arrested. The firearm believed used in the homicide was recovered along Luna’s reported escape path.

Did anyone in Columbus see or record anything that night that could shed more light on what happened?