On July 20, 2024, at about 3:54 a.m., 24-year-old Omar Infante Jr. was fatally shot at the Gonzalez Place Apartments, 4101 Rich Beem Boulevard in far East El Paso, Texas. The shooting began after a small gathering in an apartment where an argument broke out between Infante and 19-year-old Noah Daniel Lomeli over opposing gang affiliations. Both were asked to leave and went to the parking lot intending to fight.

According to surveillance and witness cellphone video, 19-year-old Damian Alexander De La Riva then came down an upper-level stairwell with a handgun and pointed it at Infante. Infante backed away with his hands raised; Lomeli drew a firearm and one of the two men shot Infante, who collapsed. Both suspects then beat, stomped, and pistol-whipped the unresponsive victim, and another gunshot was fired. The assailants appeared to remove an item, possibly a necklace, from Infante’s torso before fleeing in a red Nissan Altima; Lomeli allegedly photographed the body.

The El Paso Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons Unit identified Lomeli and De La Riva as suspects, obtained warrants, and arrested both men on murder charges; each was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility on $1 million bond. The investigation remains ongoing. If anyone has information about what happened that night, please come forward.