In the pre-dawn hours of December 7, 2019, 31-year-old Jesus Vasquez was found dead in the passenger seat of his Nissan Frontier in a West Valley City church parking lot. A passerby discovered his body just before 6 a.m.; first responders pronounced him deceased. Investigators determined he sustained multiple injuries consistent with homicidal violence and later found he had been shot in the stomach and stabbed in the right thigh and forehead. Police say the parking lot was a drop-off point and that Vasquez had been killed elsewhere and placed in his own truck.

Detectives traced the case back to the West Valley apartment Vasquez shared with his girlfriend; she said he’d left the night before to get gas but she suspected he was buying drugs. Evidence at the apartment included a piece of sheetrock with a suspected bullet hole and swabs of a substance believed to be blood. In October 2020 two incarcerated men were charged in connection with the killing after investigators alleged a woman lured Vasquez to a shed where an altercation over money and drugs occurred, and one man shot him as he tried to flee. For readers who knew Jesus or have information about his movements that night, what can be shared with detectives?