The case stems from a multiple-fatality shooting that occurred during a Halloween-themed party inside Central Station between October 28, 2023, and October 29, 2023. Shortly after 1:20 a.m. on October 29, 2023, Dodge City Police responded to multiple 911 calls and found Morales-Santos and Cabrera with multiple gunshot wounds; both were pronounced dead shortly after officers arrived. Murley suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his leg from an errant round, while Zink, a security officer, was critically injured after he attempted to detain the shooter in Central Station’s parking lot and was shot multiple times.
Cadena-Garcia was identified as the shooter and arrested later that day, after Beaver County, Oklahoma law enforcement officers located him attempting to fix a flat tire on his truck. At trial, he argued he acted in self-defense. Prosecutors Ford County Attorney Kevin B. Salzman and Chief Deputy Ford County Attorney Eliza Kassebaum pursued the case. Cadena-Garcia remains housed at the Ford County Detention Center and will be sentenced after a presentence investigation report is completed.