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Manuel Vega Lopez

Case from Gilbert, AZ dated May 19, 2025

Victim Details

Manuel Vega Lopez

Male

Hispanic / Latino

Gilbert

AZ

2025-05-19

51

Manuel

Vega Lopez

07/07/2026

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On what was supposed to be a routine workday, Manuel Vega Lopez, a 51-year-old Latino man, was tragically killed. On Monday, May 19, 2025, the devoted landscaper and father of three from Oaxaca, Mexico, was fatally shot in a Gilbert, Arizona neighborhood near Germann and Power Roads. Lopez, who had been a landscaper for over 30 years, was at the property to trim trees at the request of the landlord.

The man arrested in connection with the shooting was 28-year-old Wyatt Ford, a renter of t ...
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  • Renter accused of killing landscaper hired by landlord charged with second-degree murder
  • FOX 10 Phoenix: Tree trimmer hired by Gilbert landlord shot, killed by renter: court documents
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