On the late afternoon of April 8, 2022, 20-year-old Hispanic man Fernando Ruesga Jr. was killed in a shooting outside the Colony Farms apartment complex in Magna, Utah. Ruesga was found dead in the driver’s seat of his Dodge Charger with multiple gunshot wounds; investigators recovered thirteen shell casings near the vehicle.

Witnesses described a physical fight in the parking lot between two men that escalated. Both returned to their cars, and as Ruesga attempted to drive away the other man reportedly opened fire, striking Ruesga repeatedly before fleeing the scene in a vehicle. Charging documents identify 22-year-old Noah Ezequiel Valenzuela Sanchez as the primary suspect and say the conflict may have been tied to gang rivalry; a woman reported to police that she had children with Ruesga and was in a relationship with Sanchez and that the two men had an ongoing dispute related to gang affiliations.

The suspect’s vehicle was later located abandoned in Salt Lake City on April 12, and an arrest warrant was issued. Does anyone have information about the altercation that led to this shooting or about activity around Colony Farms that afternoon?