On the evening of June 20, 2021, 29-year-old Raymond Ortiz Jr. was found mortally wounded near the intersection of Chico Road and Pennsylvania Street in Albuquerque’s International District after a violent confrontation. Witnesses said Ortiz escaped from the trunk of a vehicle but was chased by two men from the same car, beaten with a bat and then shot multiple times. The Office of the Medical Investigator later recorded between eight and ten gunshot wounds, including one to the head.

Family and neighbors describe a long period of uncertainty while the case remained unsolved. Court documents later connected the attack to a dispute over a drug-related debt and an alleged theft of a handgun from one of the assailants, according to an informant. No one has been convicted in Ortiz’s killing.

If anyone saw Ortiz or the vehicle near Chico Road and Pennsylvania Street on June 20, 2021, or has information about the dispute that led to this attack, please come forward.