Joe Garcia, a 40-year-old Albuquerque resident, was found shot to death near his home on June 13, 2022. In the days before his death he and his daughter, Isabel, had finished a year-long project building her dream bicycle; they picked it up on June 11, 2022. The custom bike has a distinctive black and copper metallic drip paint scheme and is one of several sentimental items reported missing from the home after Joe’s death. A guitar and a quilt made from the family’s mother’s clothing were also taken.

No arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced and the Albuquerque Police Department is investigating. The missing bicycle is especially meaningful to the family as a final shared project between father and daughter. Did anyone see that custom black and copper drip bicycle or other items after mid-June 2022?