Carlos Jhovany Huerta-Garcia, 22, was shot just inside the front door of a residence at 125 E. 4800 South in Murray, Utah, in the early morning hours of September 29, 2021. Emergency crews found him about 1:50 a.m.; he was taken to a local hospital in extremely critical condition and died a short time later. Authorities believe he was acquainted with the shooter, who fled the scene after the shooting.

The homicide investigation focused on people who were at the house that night. Vanessa Lucia Arnold, 40, identified as Huerta-Garcia’s girlfriend and not believed to be a resident, initially told detectives she had been in her room for about 24 hours and had only left briefly. Surveillance from a nearby business, however, showed Arnold going back and forth between the residence and a camper trailer with a male for more than an hour before the shooting; that male, a family member, was seen leaving in a vehicle seconds after the gunshot. Arnold gave conflicting names for that driver and was arrested in mid-October 2021 on obstruction of justice charges for allegedly withholding information about the suspect and events.

No arrest in the shooting had been announced as of October 2021. If anyone knew Carlos, the people in that house, or saw activity near 125 E. 4800 South around 1:50 a.m. on September 29, 2021, please share what was seen.