Cristian Garcia Segundo and Sergio Adrian Segundo were shot outside AWPPW Hall during a quinceañera.
LONGVIEW, Wash. — Two cousins killed outside a Longview quinceañera are being mourned by loved ones in Washington and Mexico as prosecutors pursue aggravated murder charges against a Kelso man accused in the shooting.
Cristian Garcia Segundo, 21, and Sergio Adrian Segundo, 30, died April 11 in the parking lot of AWPPW Hall, where about 200 people had gathered for a 15-year-old girl’s birthday celebration. Authorities say Andres Carrasco-Sanchez, 49, shot them after he believed they were flirting with his girlfriend. The case has moved into Cowlitz County Superior Court, where he is held without bail and faces murder, firearm and eluding charges.
The names of the victims emerged through court documents, local reporting and family accounts after Longview police first announced that two people had died in a parking lot shooting. Vanguardia reported that the cousins were from Tarímbaro, Michoacán, and had visas for apple-picking work in the United States. The report said Michoacán migrant officials contacted relatives and planned to support the return of the bodies to Mexico. Local reports also described fundraising efforts for funeral costs. Those details placed the Longview shooting inside a larger family story involving work, migration and relatives split between countries.
Violeta Segundo, who said Cristian Garcia Segundo was her boyfriend, became one of the first loved ones to speak publicly. She told a local station that she did not know the suspect and was overwhelmed by the news of Garcia’s death. “It makes me really concerned, like, why would this happen?” she said. “I couldn’t handle it. I was crying all night and all day.” She said Garcia meant everything to her and described him as central to her life. In another interview, she said Garcia had left the party with her earlier in the evening but later went back.
Police say the shooting happened at about 10:45 p.m. at AWPPW Hall in the 700 block of 15th Avenue. The hall was hosting a quinceañera, a celebration that often brings extended families and friends together for music, food and formal traditions. Longview police said officers were dispatched after a report that shots had been fired in the parking lot. They found the two victims critically wounded, and both later died from their injuries. Officers also saw a suspect vehicle leaving the scene. That sighting set off a pursuit that moved away from the hall before looping back through the city.
According to court documents described by local outlets, Carrasco-Sanchez told investigators he believed the victims and another person were making prolonged eye contact with his girlfriend and smiling at her. The affidavit said he interpreted the conduct as flirting. Investigators wrote that he went to the home he shared with his girlfriend, got a handgun and returned to the event hall. The girlfriend’s name was redacted from the documents. Police say Carrasco-Sanchez later admitted shooting both men once in the head during a post-Miranda interview. When told the victims had died, he allegedly said, “It was their fault, they started it.”
The charge sheet filed by the Cowlitz County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office shifted the case into aggravated murder territory. Prosecutors charged Carrasco-Sanchez with two counts of aggravated first-degree murder with firearm enhancements. They also charged him with unlawful possession of a firearm, attempting to elude a pursuing police officer and alien in possession of a firearm. A judge granted the state’s request to hold him without bail pending trial. Prosecutors stressed in a public statement that charges are allegations, not evidence, and that a person charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless proved guilty in court.
The alleged flight from the hall is part of the same prosecution but tells a different part of the story. Police said Carrasco-Sanchez drove away as officers responded. During the pursuit, he allegedly threw a semiautomatic handgun from the vehicle window. Officers recovered the firearm. The vehicle then returned to the AWPPW Hall parking lot, where police said he tried to run before he was taken into custody. Prosecutors can use the chase to support the eluding count, and investigators may use the recovered gun as physical evidence. Public reports do not say whether the firearm has been fully tested or matched in court filings.
For the families, the legal language runs beside the simpler facts of loss. Two young men who attended a birthday party did not return home. Loved ones were left to arrange funerals, answer questions from relatives and follow a criminal case in a county courtroom. Vanguardia reported that relatives in the victims’ communities planned kermeses, community food-and-fundraising events, to help pay for funeral expenses. In Longview, the killings have been discussed as an act of sudden violence at a family gathering. In Mexico, the deaths have been reported as the killing of two Michoacán men working in the United States.
Authorities have not publicly filled in every gap. It remains unknown from the public record exactly what words, if any, passed between Carrasco-Sanchez and the victims before the shooting. The third person mentioned in the affidavit has not been identified in public reports. It is also unclear how many witnesses saw the moments immediately before the gunfire. Those unanswered questions may become important as prosecutors and defense attorneys review statements from people who were inside the hall, outside in the parking lot or leaving the event as police arrived.
Currently, Carrasco-Sanchez has been arraigned and, according to later local reporting, pleaded not guilty. The case is expected to continue through pretrial hearings in Cowlitz County Superior Court while the victims’ families continue funeral and repatriation arrangements.
Author note: Last updated May 7, 2026.