Eliseo Alberto Sortillon Lopez was a 24-year-old male Hispanic / Latino from Tucson, Arizona, who was fatally shot in the early morning hours of Sunday, March 13, 2016. That morning, Tucson police were called to reports of gunfire at a trailer park in the 6200 block of South Park Avenue, on the city’s south side near East Bilby Road. Officers arrived just before 6:30 a.m. and found Lopez inside the trailer park suffering from severe gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The location—an established trailer community off South Park Avenue—meant there were numerous potential witnesses nearby. Investigators learned that several people had been in the area when shots were fired, and multiple vehicles were seen leaving immediately afterward. Detectives treated the case as a homicide from the outset and appealed to the public for help, asking anyone with information to contact 911 or the anonymous tip line 88-CRIME.
Publicly available news coverage from the time does not describe any clear suspect or suspects, nor does it mention an arrest in the immediate aftermath. The initial reports simply note that the investigation was ongoing and emphasize that the circumstances of the shooting were still being pieced together, with police relying heavily on witnesses who might have seen the vehicles or people leaving the scene.
Later, case-tracking and victim-advocacy databases that compile information from law-enforcement and media sources continued to list Lopez as a victim of gun violence on that date in Tucson, confirming the basic details of his killing but offering no further public narrative about a named suspect, motive, or court outcome. One specialized homicide-tracking site now marks the case status as “solved,” indicating that authorities at some point appear to have resolved the investigation, but it does not provide any open, detailed record of who was arrested or how the case was cleared.
