Enrique Henry Parra Jr., 44, was shot and killed on the evening of August 1, 2024, in the Century Mobile Home Park on the 1700 block of State Avenue in Alamosa, Colorado. Officers responding to reports of shots fired found Parra with gunshot wounds; officers and hospital staff provided life-saving measures but he was pronounced dead. The Alamosa County Coroner determined the cause of death to be homicide.

Investigators identified an acquaintance, Larry Chavez, as a suspect. Chavez fled the scene and was located and arrested the next day in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office. He was charged with second-degree murder, robbery, auto theft, kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, menacing, theft, and multiple counts as a habitual criminal, and was held on a $10 million bond. The case is in the 12th Judicial District under District Attorney Anne Kelly.

Enrique is remembered by family and community members as a warm, kind, artistic man devoted to his family. Does anyone in Alamosa have information about Enrique’s last known movements or the events that evening?