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On the night of April 1, 2017, 40-year-old Jose Ignacio Villanueva III was found dead inside an apartment on Thunder Street in Las Vegas. Officers discovered Villanueva in the bathroom around 10:30 p.m.; he had multiple gunshot wounds to his legs, back, and left shoulder and was pronounced dead at the scene. Seven spent cartridge casings were recovered near his body.

His 35-year-old girlfriend, Lisa Hollopeter, remained at the apartment and was arrested after she admitted to shooting Villanueva. Hollopeter gave investigators several different accounts of what happened, and she was taken into custody on a charge of murder with a deadly weapon. Reports indicate the couple had been having ongoing relationship problems before the shooting.

Did anyone in the community know Villanueva or Hollopeter, or have information about their relationship leading up to that night?