Ignacio Barajas, 28, was living in Phoenix when he was one of two men found shot to death inside a small rear residence behind a main house near 5th Street and Broadway Road. Officers were called to 4626 South 5th Street at about 1:18 a.m. on Monday, June 4, 2012; investigators determined the killings likely occurred about two days earlier, suggesting the bodies went unnoticed for some time. Police immediately classified the incident as a homicide but did not announce a motive, and detectives worked under the assumption the pair had been intentionally targeted.

Silent Witness circulated a case notice and reward (case number 2012-1476) offering up to $1,000 for information. Later cold-case listings continue to record Barajas’s death as an unsolved homicide or death by force; databases repeat the basic facts but show minor discrepancies in address and date. No arrests or suspects have been publicly named. Does anyone have information about Barajas, the other victim Jorge Garcia, or that South Phoenix property in June 2012?