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Then the man walked over to the porch.
The woman watched as the man walked up to the porch and right as he got close to the legs, he called out the name Michael.
And then the man who was doing this checkup, he began backing up and then he turned and actually started running back towards the woman.
And as he passed her, he just said, I'm calling 911.
Not long after that man called 911, Detective Ben Jimenez of the Tucson Police Department drove down North Sparkman Boulevard in his cruiser.
He came to a stop just outside of number 2602, put his cruiser in park, and cut the engine.
Around him, he saw other squad cars and ambulances doing the same thing.
Jimenez stepped out of his air-conditioned cruiser into the hot, muggy morning air.
He took off his suit jacket and tossed it under the driver's seat, and then shut the door.
He rolled up the sleeves of his white dress shirt, loosened his tie, and then walked from the curb up to the porch of the house, until he was standing next to the dead body of a man who was lying face up and wearing yoga pants and a tank top.
Jimenez was not the first member of the Tucson PD on the scene, and one of the other officers who was already there told him that the body he was looking at belonged to the home's resident, who was named Michael Dojaquez.
The officer told Jimenez that the rest of the property was empty.
Michael was their only victim.
Jimenez put on a pair of disposable gloves and squatted down next to the body.
He could see there was a single bullet wound in the center of Michael's forehead.
Around the bullet wound, Jimenez could see a black star-shaped gunpowder burn.
There was lots of dried blood on the porch floor around the head and more blood on Michael's clothes and legs.
Jimenez mentioned to the officer to be on the lookout for any shell casings.
Then Jimenez put his hand up to Michael's exposed skin and found that it was actually still warm.
The fact the body had not gone cold yet suggested that Michael may have been killed only a few hours earlier, probably in the early hours of Friday morning.