Tyler Lewis Lackey, 24, was shot and killed after an attempted robbery at a Wells Fargo ATM near Yale and Gibson in Albuquerque. On the night of February 5, 2016, after dinner with a friend, he stopped at the ATM. A masked man approached; Lackey, who held a concealed-carry permit, drew his pistol and followed the man toward a red-and-white car. Gunfire erupted and Lackey was struck in the chest and abdomen, dying in the early hours of February 6, 2016.

Police quickly focused on a pair seen near the ATM. Within days officers named Matthew Chavez and Veronica Trimble as suspects; authorities linked a burned, stolen getaway car to the shooting and later arrested Chavez and Trimble in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Prosecutors dropped robbery and tampering charges against Trimble in October 2016, while Chavez was convicted in 2018 of second-degree murder and attempted armed robbery and sentenced to 23½ years. The New Mexico Court of Appeals overturned those convictions, finding jurors should have been allowed a voluntary-manslaughter instruction, and the case returned to trial in 2024. Chavez was acquitted of the killing on May 6, 2024, but convicted of evidence tampering and released with credit for time served.

The shooting prompted a legislative push named the Tyler Lackey Memorial Bill aimed at limiting manslaughter step-down instructions in cases where defendants initiated violent felonies. Did anyone know Tyler or see activity near that ATM the night of February 5, 2016?