Joshua Orta, the only known witness to the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez during a 2025 encounter with federal immigration agents in Texas, has reportedly died in what police describe as an unrelated car accident.
Orta, 25, had been preparing to formalise a written statement challenging the government's account of the March 2025 shooting. According to The New York Times, he died over the weekend before he could sign and adopt that statement.
