Naomi Riley Davis, 19, was found fatally shot in a southeast Austin apartment on January 1, 2024 — reported as the city’s first homicide of the year. Officers responded to multiple calls about a shooting at approximately 8:49 p.m. in the 4900 block of East Oltorf Street and discovered Davis unresponsive with a gunshot wound; she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Twenty-year-old Martin Adolfo Rodriguez was found at the scene with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Despite his injuries, he resisted arrest, engaged in a physical altercation with officers, was subdued, and taken to a local hospital in stable condition. Rodriguez, described as Davis’s on-and-off boyfriend and said to have been staying in the apartment for several days, was charged with first-degree murder and is being held at the Travis County Jail on $750,000 bond.

Witnesses described Rodriguez’s behavior as erratic and noted known drug abuse; one resident said they saw him sitting on a couch with his hand hidden under a pillow shortly before Davis was found bleeding. Rodriguez had prior weapons arrests, including an unlawful-carrying-as-a-convicted-felon arrest on December 1, 2023, and was released on personal recognizance bond December 15, 2023, just over two weeks before the killing — a fact that has drawn scrutiny. Anyone with information is asked to contact investigators. What did neighbors or others in the building see or hear that night?