On January 24, 2024, at about 11 p.m., officers in Amarillo responded to a shooting at a residence in the 800 block of North Highland and found 23-year-old Everardo Guadalupe Leal Jr. with a gunshot wound. Emergency personnel pronounced Leal dead at the scene after life-saving efforts. Shortly afterward, police were called to a separate shooting in the 800 block of North Apache where a second male was found with multiple gunshot wounds and taken to a hospital in critical but stable condition.

Investigators linked both shootings to an earlier altercation around 10 p.m. that evening at the Walmart on Grand Street. Homicide detectives later obtained indictments: on April 29, 2024, 22-year-old Isaac Arthur Botello was indicted on a murder charge and 22-year-old Jorge Fabian Cabello was indicted on murder and aggravated perjury charges; both were arrested and booked into the Potter County Jail. A Potter County Grand Jury returned murder indictments related to Leal’s death on May 23, 2024. The investigation is ongoing.

If anyone has information about the events at the Walmart that evening or the shootings at North Highland and North Apache, please share what was seen or heard.