Do you know who murdered Marqus Chavez? Marqus Chavez, 20, a man from Albuquerque, was discovered in the grass at Mesa Verde Park on the morning of November 29, 2017, after a call to police brought officers to the park near Marquette and Pennsylvania NE. Responding officers found he had been fatally shot, and the scene was immediately treated as a homicide—one of the final killings counted in the city that year. The timing suggested he had been killed overnight before daybreak.
In the hours before his death, surveillance cameras captured Chavez meeting with two people at the park the previous night. Investigators highlighted those images in hopes of identifying the pair and reconstructing the final movements that led him to Mesa Verde. Crime Stoppers urged anyone who recognized the individuals, or who had seen activity around the park late that night, to come forward with tips that could push the case forward.
Records place the killing explicitly at Mesa Verde Park on November 29, 2017, anchoring the geography of the case to a well-used neighborhood green space. Separate memorial records list Chavez's date of death as November 28, which aligns with the account that he met with two people the night before and was found the next morning. The split in dates reflects the overnight window in which the shooting likely occurred.
Authorities did not announce arrests in connection with Chavez's killing in the period that followed, and public posts continued to solicit information, indicating the investigation remained open without publicly identified suspects. Community appeals and cold-case listings have reiterated that detectives still seek leads that could identify the two people seen with him and explain the confrontation that ended in gunfire.
