The second victim in the Easter shooting an the Eagle Ranch has been identified as Juan Baltazar Lopez. Mr. Baltazar Lopez was from Guatemala.
The first vicitm was identified as Gerardo Perez-Ruiz. Mr. Perez-Ruiz was a Mexican National from San Jose Del Rincon in Toluca, Mexico.
On April 8, 2012, at approximately 10:35 p.m., agents from the Casa Grande Border Patrol Station, Eloy Police Department, and Coolidge Police Department responded to the Eagle Ranch located at the south end of South Night Sky Street, south of West Antares Drive, in Eloy, Arizona. The response was in reference to shots being fired at an undocumented entrant smuggling load.
Upon arrival, the law enforcement agencies found one deceased person in the bed of a pickup truck and a second deceased subject in a wash northeast of the pickup truck. Several undocumented entrants were located hiding in the brush nearby. It was determined that the incident had occurred in the Pima County Sheriff’s Department’s jurisdiction.
Homicide detectives discovered that approximately 20-30 undocumented entrants were traveling in a pickup truck in a wash that is commonly used for human smuggling. They were ambushed by an unknown number of subjects in camouflage clothing armed with rifles. Shots were fired at the pickup truck at which time Perez-Ruiz and Lopez were fatally struck.