Gregorio Lopez, a 37-year-old resident of Penasco, New Mexico, was shot and killed on August 11, 2021. He was born August 22, 1983, and was described as close to his 5-year-old daughter, Genesis Lucero, and active in his community, enjoying the outdoors, camping and the mountains.

Police arrested Gregorio’s girlfriend, Lori Ortega, on August 13, 2021, in connection with the fatal shooting. According to court proceedings cited later in 2022, Ortega confessed to murdering Gregorio on October 6, 2022. Services for Gregorio included a rosary and funeral mass at San Antonio de Padua Catholic Church in Penasco and burial at the Chacon Family Cemetery.

What details about Gregorio’s final hours or the circumstances of the shooting are still unclear to those who knew him?