Joshua Nunez, 17, male, was caught in a sudden burst of violence that began as a confrontation at a Union 76 station at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Owens Avenue in Las Vegas. On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, after tensions flared at the gas station, the conflict spilled into the street. Nunez and his brother-in-law, 19-year-old Humberto Manuel Ocegueda-Ramos, drove off, but another car followed. Near Mezpah Street and Washington Avenue, gunfire shredded the calm of the central valley.
Both young men were shot in the head, rushed to University Medical Center, and died there. Days later, the coroner publicly identified Nunez, confirming the fatal chain of events that began at the station and ended with the attack along Washington Avenue.
Detectives pieced together the route and the quarrel that set the pursuit in motion. Early reports noted that at least two unknown suspects were involved, and that the victims’ vehicle was targeted from the driver’s side of the trailing car. As the investigation widened, police described the confrontation at the convenience store as the flashpoint that led directly to the drive-by ambush.
By late June, the manhunt narrowed. On June 22, 2016, Metro’s Criminal Apprehension Team arrested Ocean Camacho, 19, and Anthony Martinez, 18, in separate locations. Both were booked into the Clark County Detention Center on two counts of murder with a deadly weapon and related offenses. The arrests followed a series of investigative leads, including a voicemail that helped identify the pair to detectives.
In the weeks that followed, Camacho and Martinez appeared in court and pleaded not guilty. A trial date was set as prosecutors outlined a drive-by double-homicide rooted in the encounter that began at the gas station.
Years later, the case reached a jury. Appellate records describe how the groups met for a Xanax deal at the station; a scuffle and theft inside the victims’ car escalated into a chase, and shots were fired at the fleeing vehicle. In October 2022, a jury found Camacho guilty on all counts, and on June 27, 2023, the court imposed an aggregate sentence of life with the possibility of parole after 36 years. Martinez also took his case to the Nevada Supreme Court, which issued a decision in August 2024.
