A house party on Tucson’s Southeast Side turned fatal on the night of May 14, 2006, when 19-year-old Wyatt James Hoskinson was shot during a confrontation in the front yard of a home on East Nicaragua Drive. The disturbance began after uninvited guests arrived, and witnesses reported multiple gunshots fired from more than one firearm. Hoskinson, an invited guest, was found wounded in a nearby yard and taken to University Medical Center, where he died several hours later.

The Tucson Police Department’s gang unit investigated because people with known gang affiliations were at the party, though it was not publicly known whether Hoskinson had any gang ties. The case remains unsolved: no arrests or suspects have been publicly identified. If anyone was at that party or knew Wyatt’s movements that night, please come forward with information that might help resolve this homicide.