Curtis Rittenhouse, 26, was shot and killed outside a home at 609 Dawn Loop in Clovis, New Mexico, on the morning of May 28, 2020. Police were dispatched about 10:15 a.m.; Curtis was found deceased from a fatal gunshot wound and the Clovis Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

Investigators interviewed several people and identified 27-year-old Steaphan Steel Shepherd as a suspect. A warrant was issued charging Shepherd with first-degree murder and he was reported last seen driving a 2001 white Jeep Cherokee. Law enforcement later arrested Shepherd and he was booked into the Curry County Adult Detention Center on an open count of murder.

Curtis was born April 16, 1994, in Clovis, worked as a cook, and was Baptist. He is survived by three daughters, Zailey Crumpton, Jessica Rittenhouse, and Ava Rittenhouse, his mother Leslie Grano, father Donald Rittenhouse, and brothers Robert Rittenhouse and Dylan Gosnal.

Did anyone in the community have contact with Curtis or information about the events at 609 Dawn Loop on May 28, 2020?