Tomas Contreras was a 23-year-old Mexican man shot to death in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, October 24, 2015, in rural western Canadian County near Hinton, Oklahoma. A linked shooting earlier that morning left a trailer home in rural Caddo County riddled with bullets; investigators traced the violence from that scene to a small home west of Methodist Road on West Reno where Contreras and another man, Luis Armando Granillo Morales, were shot.

Morales survived and made it to a Hinton gas station to call for help; deputies found Contreras gravely wounded and he later died of his injuries while Morales was taken to OU Medical Center for treatment. An eyewitness identified Valentin Monuz Gonzalez, who used several aliases including Martin Gonzalez and Heraldo Garcia, and the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office obtained an arrest warrant charging him with first degree murder and shooting with intent to kill; Gonzalez later surrendered to deputies.

Questions remain about what motivated the two linked attacks earlier that morning and how the episodes in Caddo and Canadian counties were connected — did anyone who knew Tomas see him that night or know more about his movements?