Christian Holman, 45, male, was found dead on the evening of October 24, 2021, after gunfire shattered the quiet at the Rosewood Apartments in Ontario, Oregon. Police were dispatched around 7:27 p.m. to reports of multiple shots at the complex on Alameda Drive, where they discovered two men who had been shot and killed: Holman and 38-year-old Martin Esteban Navarro.
The violence unfolded in a courtyard scene lit by emergency strobes as investigators from the Malheur County Major Crimes Team and the Oregon State Crime Lab processed the area for evidence. Early accounts from authorities described the deaths as homicides and suggested the crime was not random; the people involved were believed to have known one another.
In the immediate aftermath, officials released the victims’ identities and outlined the initial timeline. Holman was believed by authorities to be from Idaho, and an autopsy later detail shared by the district attorney indicated Navarro was shot multiple times while Holman was struck once. The apartment complex sits just south of the Albertsons in town, a familiar landmark in local coverage as the community absorbed news of the double killing.
Within days, a suspect emerged. On November 4, 2021, a Malheur County grand jury indicted 23-year-old Leonardo Rafael Arvizu of Nyssa on two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of unlawful use of a firearm, and the circuit court issued a felony warrant for his arrest with bail set at $500,000. Authorities publicly warned that Arvizu was considered dangerous, said the case had a specific motive as explained by witnesses, and noted that the search for him had become a multi-state effort. As of the initial announcements, no arrest had been made.
Community tributes and violence-tracking databases later recorded Holman’s death alongside Navarro’s, marking the Ontario shooting as a double homicide on October 24, 2021, at the Rosewood Apartments. These listings echoed the early news reports naming the victims and noting that investigators were still pursuing the suspect.
