4 arrested in Ohkay shooting
Police say 18-year-old’s killing was a case of mistaken identity
Four people have been arrested and three have been charged with firstdegree murder in the shooting death Thursday night of 18-year-old Cameron Martinez on a highway north of Española.
The shooting apparently was a case of mistaken identity. One of the alleged shooters, Mark Timothy Hice, 22, of Ojo Caliente, believed someone was looking for him and wanted to shoot him, according to a State Police news release Sunday.
Hice and his companions subsequently opened fire on the car that Martinez and three others were riding in, killing Martinez and wounding the three other people in the car with him.
The State Police statement adds, “The victims are not believed to have been related to any prior involvement with the suspects and were targeted as a mistake.”
Along with Hice, Anton Martinez, 19, of Santa Cruz and Axel Zamarron, 17, of Española are charged with first-degree murder. Brittany Garcia, 21, of Ojo Caliente faces conspiracy and tampering with evidence charges.
The shooting took place about 9:30 p.m. Thursday on N.M. 68 on Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, just north of Española.
Responding officers found a blue Subaru WRX in the northbound lane with two men and two women inside, all with apparent gunshot wounds. One of them, Martinez, was dead.
Martinez, who graduated from Española Valley High School this year and played on the Sundevils basketball team, recently was in a student program at Los Alamos National Laboratory.