Henry Lueras, 20, male, Hispanic/Latino, died on November 17, 1999, in Belen, New Mexico, the victim of gun violence. His name appears in community memorial records for those lost to firearms that day in Belen, and burial records place him at Our Lady of Belen Memorial Gardens in Valencia County.
Despite the stark finality of those listings, the public record offers few details about how the violence unfolded.
No contemporaneous law-enforcement bulletin or state cold-case summary specific to Henry appears in New Mexico’s official cold-case resources or major searchable cold-case databases, and independent aggregators note the absence of further information. As a result, there are no publicly reported arrests, suspect names, or investigative updates tied to his death in the sources available online.
What remains visible today are brief memorial traces—an online candlelit page marking the date and place of his loss, and a simple cemetery entry that fixes his resting place—quiet signposts that keep his name present even when the story behind it is not.
