New video shows 2022 murder victim in downtown Austin hours before his death

AUSTIN (KXAN) — As rain fell in the early hours of Easter Sunday in 2022, Austin police found Cory Arizmendez lying in a residential street in the South Congress neighborhood. They reported the 35-year-old had been shot in the head and had “obvious trauma” to his body, but since then, they have struggled to unearth more details.

New video obtained by KXAN reveals Arizmendez interacted with several people and spent hours in downtown Austin leading up to his death.

The grainy footage still doesn’t provide an answer to several key questions in the case, such as how he got from Sixth Street to the residential neighborhood where he was found or, most importantly, who killed him. Still, detectives hope it could provide a break in the case, and they are asking anyone who might know something about the footage or about this case to come forward…

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