Maurice Mo Olajawaun Rogers

Maurice Mo Olajawaun Rogers was a 36-year-old Black man from Odessa, Texas.

On the morning of Wednesday, December 28, 2022, law enforcement officers were asked to perform a welfare check at Mr. Rogers' home. When police arrived at the residence in the 1000 block of East 36th Street around 10:45 a.m., they discovered his body inside. Mr. Rogers had been shot, and investigators found several spent bullet casings at the scene.

The investigation led to suspects within days. On Thursday, the Odessa Police Department announced the arrest of 31-year-old Harvey Albert Gutierrez in connection with the killing. At the same time, they confirmed that arrest warrants had been obtained for two other individuals.

The following day, those two suspects were located and arrested in El Paso. With assistance from the Texas Department of Public Safety and the United States Marshals, officers took Ashton Isiah Munoz, 18, and a 16-year-old into custody on murder warrants. Both were arrested without incident.

Gutierrez was booked into the Ector County jail on a first-degree felony charge of murder and was held on a $100,000 surety bond. According to a police news release, evidence suggested that the three individuals had acted together to cause Mr. Rogers’ death. As of late December 2022, authorities were working to extradite Munoz and the teenager from El Paso back to Odessa.