Eric Noel Carrasco, 26, was shot dead early morning on October 4, 2019, at the Motel 6 on 200 N. Marland Blvd in Hobbs, New Mexico. Officers responding to a shots-fired call and a report that a vehicle had struck the building found Carrasco in the driver’s seat of a sedan with multiple gunshot wounds, including a large entry wound under his left arm. He died at the scene despite lifesaving efforts.

A witness reported seeing a man holding an AK47 pistol in his right hand approach the driver’s side and say You think this is a game before firing. That witness later identified 35-year-old Edward Lucky Soto in a photographic array. Evidence recovered from the motel rooms and Carrasco’s vehicle included multiple firearms, a sawed-off rifle, magazines, live ammunition, a firearm on Carrasco’s lap, bullet damage to the car, and a spent shell along the vehicle’s path. Soto was arrested October 29, 2019, after a tip placed him in a storage building and was held on an open count of murder. If anyone has information about Carrasco or the events at the motel that morning, please share what is known.