Ronnie Ray Yslas, a 38-year-old White / Caucasian male from Tucson, Arizona, was killed in a shooting on the city’s south side after Pima County Sheriff’s deputies were called to reports of gunfire late on the night of March 11, 2022, with public records listing his death date as March 12. Deputies were dispatched at about 11:45 p.m. to the 5800 block of South Bonney Avenue, in the area described in some reports as near Country Club and Milton Roads, following a report of a shooting.
When they arrived, they found Yslas with “obvious signs of trauma,” and he was pronounced dead at the scene shortly thereafter.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department immediately treated the case as a homicide. Detectives from the department’s Criminal Investigations Division responded to the scene to document evidence and process the area where Ronnie’s body was found. Local coverage and national gun-violence databases alike list the incident as a fatal shooting, placing it at the South Bonney Avenue address and recording it as a single-victim homicide that occurred that night on Tucson’s south side.
In the weeks that followed, public memorials and online tributes described Ronnie as a deeply loved member of his family and community. A memorial page on the National Gun Violence Memorial notes that he was “lost to gun violence” in Tucson on March 12, 2022, and includes numerous messages from relatives and friends who remember him as big-hearted, loving, funny, and passionate about cooking, with several comments written by his children expressing how much they miss their father. Funeral arrangements were handled through Evergreen Mortuary & Cemetery, with a funeral service held on April 11, 2022, in Tucson, and he is listed as being interred at Evergreen Memorial Park in the Garden of Eternity Niches.
Publicly available information about the investigation indicates that law enforcement has not announced any arrests or identified any suspects by name in connection with Ronnie’s killing. Initial news reports from KOLD and KGUN describe the case as an “ongoing homicide investigation” and emphasize that detectives would release more information when available, while a report summarized by the Arizona Republic explicitly states that a suspect was being sought at the time and urges anyone with information to contact 911 or submit anonymous tips to 88-CRIME. Subsequent memorial listings and case summaries continue to present the homicide as unsolved and repeat law enforcement’s appeal for community assistance, with no later updates documenting a suspect being apprehended or charged in Ronnie’s death.
