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On the morning of June 3, 2020, 34-year-old Mathew Bond of Longmont, Colorado, was found dead inside a stolen vehicle on Valentine Lane. His death resulted from a shooting that had taken place more than an hour earlier in a cul-de-sac on the 1200 block of Hunter Court, and the Longmont Police Department opened a homicide investigation.
Investigators identified Richard Lawrence Martinez as the primary suspect. Martinez was located two days later in Espanola, New Mexico, after surveillance on a relative’s home. A high-speed chase ended in a crash; Martinez fled on foot and was captured. Longmont police said they were not seeking any other suspects.
Court testimony during the trial showed Bond was not the intended target. The shooting grew out of a dispute between Martinez and another man, Seth Eberly; Eberly had reportedly threatened Martinez’s girlfriend with a shotgun hours earlier. Martinez then armed himself and fired about 13 rounds into the vehicle Eberly was driving, and Bond, a passenger, was struck and killed.
Did anyone who knew Mathew Bond or was in that neighborhood that morning see anything that could help clarify what happened?