On the early morning of June 12, 2022, Carl Wynegar, a 37-year-old male of White/Caucasian ethnicity from Tucson, Arizona, was involved in a deadly confrontation at the apartment complex where he lived on the city’s east side. Shortly after 12:30 a.m., Tucson police were called to the 6200 block of East Pima Street for reports of a shooting. Officers arrived to find Wynegar lying on the sidewalk outside the complex with obvious gunshot wounds.
They provided emergency medical aid, using their individual first-aid kits until Tucson Fire paramedics arrived and took over care. He was transported to St. Joseph’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead soon after arrival.
According to police accounts reported in local and regional outlets, investigators quickly learned that the shooting followed an argument between Wynegar and two other men who also lived at the same apartment complex. All three were reported to have been armed. What began as a verbal dispute escalated, shots were fired, and Wynegar was struck. The two other men involved did not flee; instead, they called 911, remained at the scene, and spoke with officers. They were detained and cooperated with detectives as the case was opened as a homicide investigation. At that early stage, police said no arrests had yet been made and indicated that the findings of their investigation would be forwarded to the Pima County Attorney’s Office for review.
Public memorial pages created later describe Wynegar as someone known by the nickname “Buddy,” with loved ones highlighting his work as a fire inspector and his role within his family. A message from a relative laments that he was killed because a disagreement turned violent instead of being resolved peacefully, underscoring the sense among those close to him that his death was the tragic result of a conflict that should never have escalated to gunfire.
Subsequent summaries of the case, compiled from Tucson police information and follow-up news coverage, indicate that detectives eventually identified a suspect in the killing: 36-year-old Ryan R. Coronado. Roughly a month after the shooting, Tucson authorities announced that Coronado, who was wanted in connection with the east-side shooting and the murder of Wynegar, had been located and taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force on July 13. These same case summaries now list the homicide as “solved,” reflecting the arrest of a suspect in the killing, although the publicly available material does not detail what happened afterward in court, such as trial proceedings, plea agreements, or sentencing.
