Tucson police are looking for two people involved in a shooting Sunday morning that left one man dead and another with serious injuries.
Multiple 911 calls reported a shooting just after 9 a.m. Sunday near the Grand Luxe Hotel, 1635 W. Grant Road, Tucson police said Monday in a news release.
Officers found two men with gunshot wounds when they arrived.
Andrew Jacob Valencia, 32, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
A 33-year-old man was taken to a hospital with “serious but non-life-threatening injuries.”
Surveillance camera footage showed at least two people, who appeared to be men, fleeing the area on a red-and-white dirt bike.
Tucson police say they are looking for these two individuals in connection with a Sunday morning shooting that left one person dead.
Police ask anyone with information to call 88-CRIME, the anonymous tips line.
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Tucson police say they are looking for these two people in connection with a fatal shooting Sunday morning.
Tessa Diego, 27, who lives at the motel, said she heard raised voices through the music she was blasting while doing her morning chores.
A man, apparently Valencia, was carrying groceries along with a woman, and he was confronted by two other men, she said. Those men were accusing him of a previous threat, she said.
“He was like, ‘you got the wrong guy — that wasn’t me,’” she said. “They keep exchanging back and forth, like ‘No, it’s not me,’ ‘Yeah it is you,. ”
One of the two men confronting Valencia had a gun in his backpack and flashed it, she said. Diego yelled at that point, she said, asking them not to start shooting and endanger everyone around them.
“The man with the tan backpack came to me, to my door, and said, ‘You don’t understand. He threatened me first. He pulled a gun on me and shot an empty. I’m defending myself’.”
The conflict quickly escalated despite her protests, she said.
Witness Tessa Diego points to an area where a shooting occurred on Sunday morning, at the Grand Luxe Hotel and Resort, that left one man dead and another with serious injuries. Diego has lived at the hotel, at 1365 W. Grant Road, for four months.
“The guy with the groceries threw them in the air in fright and ran as fast as he could away,” Diego said. “But the way he had run, there’s no exit that way.”
“He noticed he couldn’t get out that way, so he started to run this way and run down that hallway there,” she said, gesturing out into the courtyard. “That’s where he was shot and killed.”
The other, injured man stumbled down a sidewalk and fell outside her door. A trail of blood droplets still marked the trail Monday.
Family members of Valencia held a candlelight service Sunday evening. On Monday afternoon, Valencia’s cousin Rachel Santa Cruz lit sage and wafted it in the dark and smelly second floor corridor where he died.
She and another cousin were trying to cleanse the sight, she said, and send Valencia off the right way, she said.
A small memorial was set up by family members at the site where Andrew Jacob Valencia was fatally shot Sunday morning at the Grand Luxe Hotel and Resort.
Michael Campbell, who is night manager and security guard at the hotel, said the two men police are looking for had been staying at the motel.
“It happened here, but it just as easily could have happened at the Hyatt or the Sheraton,” Campbell said.
The fatal shooting marked Tucson’s 34th homicide in 2025, police said.
