Alvi Aristegui Puyg was a 43-year-old man whose fatal shooting occurred in Edinburg, Texas, on May 19, 2024. Although one online memorial entry lists his death as July 26, 2026, multiple contemporaneous news reports and obituary information place the killing on May 19, 2024, and describe the same homicide, location, victim and suspect. The available reporting therefore indicates that the July 26, 2026 date is associated with an apparent duplicate or incorrectly dated memorial entry rather than
a separate killing. Sources also spell his name as Alvi Aristegui Puyg and Alvin Aristegui-Puig. Reporting about his family identifies him as Cuban, providing the available information about his ethnicity or national background.
Shortly after 6 p.m. on May 19, Edinburg Police Department officers were dispatched to the Enclave Apartments in the 600 block of South Pin Oak Drive after a shooting was reported. When officers arrived, they found Puyg suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators quickly focused on a family dispute that had been unfolding at the apartment and detained 17-year-old Alberto Quintana in connection with the shooting.
According to accounts based on the probable-cause investigation, the confrontation began over missing food, specifically two packages of chicken. Quintana’s father told investigators that he and Puyg, who were relatives, had been arguing about the missing chicken. He reportedly tried to calm the situation by telling Puyg that the food was not worth fighting over and pointing out that he had paid for the items. Instead of ending there, the disagreement became increasingly heated and aggressive.
Quintana was present as the dispute escalated. His father later told authorities that Quintana warned Puyg to stop behaving aggressively. Moments later, Quintana allegedly produced a handgun and fired. Puyg was struck in the head. Quintana’s father described hearing the gunshot extremely close to him before seeing Puyg fall, and he believed Puyg died immediately. The firearm involved reportedly belonged to Quintana’s father, who told local media that he intended to cooperate with investigators.
Police encountered Quintana and his father outside the apartment complex during the investigation. When an officer asked who had shot Puyg, Quintana reportedly acknowledged that he had fired the shot. Officers detained him at the scene, and he was subsequently arrested. Investigators did not announce that they were searching for another shooter, and the publicly available accounts identify Quintana as the person accused of firing the fatal round.
Quintana was formally charged with murder and arraigned in Edinburg Municipal Court following his arrest. His bond was set at $1.5 million. Some early Spanish-language reporting described the allegation as capital murder, while Edinburg police and subsequent local reporting consistently described the filed charge as murder. Because Quintana was 17 at the time, he was nevertheless treated as an adult defendant under the proceedings described by local news organizations.
The killing was particularly devastating because those involved belonged to the same extended family. Quintana’s father described Puyg as his nephew in one interview, while other reporting referred to Puyg and Quintana as cousins or otherwise close relatives. Regardless of the differing descriptions of the precise family relationship, investigators portrayed the shooting as a domestic family argument that escalated with extraordinary speed from a disagreement over food to a fatal act of violence.
Puyg’s family later publicly called for justice. Cuban-language reporting identified his brother, Lázaro Iván Aristegui Puig, as speaking out about the killing and expressing confidence that the United States legal system would hold the person responsible accountable. Those reports reinforced the May 19, 2024 date of the homicide and identified Quintana as the relative accused of killing him.
The most recent publicly searchable reporting located for the case continues to identify Alberto Quintana as the arrested and charged suspect. No reliable online source located in the available search results reports that another suspect was arrested or charged in connection with Puyg’s death. Likewise, no dependable publicly available report located here establishes that Quintana has since been convicted, acquitted, sentenced, or completed a trial. The documented status is therefore that Quintana was arrested shortly after the shooting, accused of firing the fatal shot, charged with murder and initially held under a $1.5 million bond, with no verified final disposition located in the available online reporting.
