Carlos Alonso Quijano Carrillo was a 20-year-old man from Oklahoma City whose life ended violently in the early hours of January 29, 2023. That Sunday morning began like so many others on the city’s south side, with families settled into modest homes along Southwest 25th Street, when an argument inside one of those houses erupted into something irrevocable. Behind the walls of the residence at 812 S.W.
25th Street, a family dispute grew heated, the kind of confrontation that might have started as words raised in frustration and hurt, before crossing the line into fatal violence.
Police were called to the home around 12:30 a.m. after a report of a disturbance. Officers arrived to find that a family argument between Carlos and his stepfather, 36-year-old Miguel Hernandez-Garcia, had escalated to gunfire. According to reports, Hernandez-Garcia shot Carlos during the dispute inside the house. When officers reached the scene, they found Carlos suffering from gunshot wounds, and he was pronounced dead there at the home, his life ending on the floor of the place where he had been living with family. The killing was soon recorded by Oklahoma City police as the city’s seventh homicide of 2023, an early entry on a grim annual tally that had barely begun.
In the chaotic moments after the shooting, Hernandez-Garcia fled the scene on foot, leaving the house and the family inside reeling. The escape did not last long. Officers conducting the search located him a short time later and took him into custody. He was interviewed by investigators and then booked into the Oklahoma County Detention Center on a complaint of first-degree murder, identified publicly as the stepfather accused of killing his stepson. The case was quickly recognized across multiple local outlets as a domestic homicide: a young man dead, a family member under arrest, and a household on Southwest 25th Street forever altered.
As news of the killing spread, the bare facts of Carlos’s life and death were gathered into brief public notices and memorial pages. Records show he was born on November 4, 2002, and died on January 29, 2023, his entire lifespan contained within a little more than twenty years. Funeral arrangements were handled by OK Cremation & Funeral Home in Oklahoma City, where a visitation was scheduled and mourners were invited to leave memories and condolences in an online guestbook, even though a full obituary with personal details was never published. On memorial sites, candles were lit in his honor, photos shared, and his name added to the long list of victims of gun violence in the United States, reducing the complexity of his life to the stark phrase “lost to gun violence” and a date.
In the months and years that followed, the public record remained focused on that initial night: the argument in a southwest Oklahoma City home, the shots that ended a young life, and the arrest of a stepfather on a murder complaint. Local reporting and summary sites describe the arrest, the booking into the county detention center, and the classification of the case as one of the city’s early homicides of 2023, but they do not clearly document any later court outcome or resolution available in open online sources. What lingers in the accessible record is a snapshot in time: a family confrontation that spiraled into fatal violence, a young man whose story is preserved only in short news items and sparse memorials, and an accused killer whose name is tied to that single, devastating night inside a small house on Southwest 25th Street.
