Manuel Vega Lopez

Death by Force

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 ...Read More

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