Brandon York, 43, was shot and killed on the evening of July 23, 2022, in the parking lot of a Safeway gas station near East Main Street and Plaza Center in Farmington, New Mexico. Police arrived after calls about gunfire and found York with multiple gunshot wounds; witnesses reported the shooter fled east in a blue Ford Ranger.

Officers stopped that vehicle near 30th Street and College Boulevard and detained the driver, 21-year-old Guillermo Humberto Aguirre IV. Two other occupants were questioned and released. Aguirre told police he and York argued, that York threw small stones and became aggressive, and that he had first used a stun gun before firing a handgun. A witness video, however, shows Aguirre shooting York once as he fell and then firing several more shots at close range; police say nine shots were fired in total.

Aguirre was arrested and booked on second-degree murder charges. What details about the confrontation or its lead-up are still unclear to readers with local knowledge?