On November 2, 2014, Jonathan Garnand, 19, and Devone Blake, 19, were found shot and critically wounded in a 2003 maroon Chevy Impala on the 1000 block of Hendrix Avenue in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Both were taken to Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center and then airlifted to University Medical Center in El Paso; Garnand died November 4, 2014, and Blake died November 10, 2014.

The case went cold for years before the Twelfth Judicial District Attorney’s Cold Case Unit and the Alamogordo Police Department reopened it in March 2020. Cell phone and GPS data, surveillance video and other investigative work identified two men, Jonathan Stewart and Angel Armendariz, as suspects in what investigators say was a botched drug deal that led to the shootings. Stewart was arrested January 5, 2022; Armendariz was arrested later in Texas.

Garnand’s mother, Anna Alcala, received menacing packages after the killings; those items were later tied into the investigation. Anyone with information about Garnand, Blake, or the events on Hendrix Avenue is asked to come forward.