Anthony Sanders, 30, male, was shot multiple times in the Orange parking garage of The Galleria in Houston around 5 p.m. on June 3, 2025. Officers and paramedics found him gravely wounded in the structure at 5015 Westheimer; he was taken to Ben Taub General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Investigators initially detained three men seen leaving the garage in a black Chrysler 300 with shattered windows, questioned them, and released them while they worked to piece together what happened.
The killing was treated as an isolated confrontation inside the garage, and police appealed for tips as the investigation widened.
In the days that followed, a picture of the moments leading up to the gunfire began to emerge. Reporting and court filings described an argument that started after Anthony Sanders’ fiancée encountered a group of men in an elevator; when the dispute spilled into the garage with Sanders’ fiancée and infant in the car, witnesses said the confrontation escalated and Sanders was shot multiple times. Early accounts emphasized that no weapon was recovered from Sanders, a detail later echoed in court as the case moved forward. The shooting touched off renewed questions about security in and around the multi-level structure and whether surveillance footage would clarify the chain of events.
On June 26, 2025, Houston Police announced the first major break: the arrest of 23-year-old Marko Cinan, charged with murder in the 248th State District Court. Detectives said continued investigation identified Cinan as a suspect; he was taken into custody by HPD’s Narcotics Tactical Team the previous day. In their update, police reiterated the core facts—shots fired in the garage, a mortally wounded victim taken to Ben Taub, and a black Chrysler seen fleeing—while stressing that the investigation remained active.
Less than a week later, a second suspect, 22-year-old Justin Joshua Guzman, turned himself in at the Harris County Joint Processing Center. He was also charged with murder in Anthony Sanders’ death. During Guzman’s first court appearance, a defense attorney publicly claimed self-defense, asserting that Sanders approached with a knife; contemporaneous records cited by reporters noted that Sanders was unarmed, a dispute of fact that the court would be left to sort out. With Cinan held on a $1 million bond and Guzman newly charged, police said they were still gathering evidence while the third man in the car—the driver—had not been charged.
As the case moved into the courts, Anthony Sanders’ family described him as a Marine veteran and a devoted partner and father, and they pressed for a full accounting of what happened in the garage that afternoon. Their public statements, alongside police briefings and filings, framed a narrative of an everyday errand turned fatal after a confrontation escalated with startling speed. With arrests made and charges filed against Marko Cinan and Justin Guzman, the homicide investigation into the killing of Anthony Sanders, 30, male, continued under the scrutiny of both the courts and a community looking for answers.
