In the early morning hours of July 16, 2016, 26-year-old Paul Anthony Ortiz Jr., a Hispanic man from Greeley, Colorado, was found in the front yard of a residence on C Street with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to North Colorado Medical Center and died from his injuries.

Investigators initially identified Refugio Ramos as a suspect and reported that Ortiz had gone to the house and knocked before being shot. The probe later focused on 21-year-old Marcello Rodriquez of Greeley. Rodriquez surrendered to police in July and at one point pleaded guilty; that plea was later withdrawn. At a December 2018 trial he testified that Ramos had ordered him to take responsibility, saying Ramos promised a 10-year sentence, and that he recanted his earlier confession. A jury convicted Rodriquez of first-degree murder and in January 2019 a Weld District Court judge sentenced him to life without parole.

Was anyone in Greeley aware of Ortiz’s movements that night or of interactions at the C Street residence leading up to the shooting?