Court appearances are pending this week for four people accused of having some part in a Feb. 15 shooting on University Boulevard that left one man dead.

Diego Andres Lopez-Urdaneta was found in his truck with a gunshot wound to the head in the early morning hours of Feb. 15, touching off an investigation by the Bowling Green Police Department that resulted in the arrests of five Bowling Green residents.

Lopez-Urdaneta was taken to TriStar Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, where he was pronounced dead on Feb. 16.

Bryan Aguero Lopez, 22, is charged with murder, having been accused by police of firing the fatal shot from the passenger seat of a Nissan Rogue that had pursued and driven by Lopez-Urdaneta’s truck minutes after a confrontation took place involving Lopez-Urdaneta and others outside Club Havana on St. Charles Street.

The four other people arrested have all been charged with complicity to murder and include:

– Jose Luis Galindo Hernandez, 35

– Luis Angel Lira Duron, 23

– Jason Aguero Lopez, 20

– Christopher Meza Ramirez, 20

Preliminary hearings are scheduled to take place Wednesday in Warren District Court for Bryan and Jason Lopez, Duron and Hernandez.

Ramirez’s case has been heard in Warren District Court and been bound over to a grand jury for a potential indictment.

At Ramirez’s preliminary hearing last month BGPD Detective Matthew Poore testified that Ramirez drove the Rogue that chased down Lopez-Urdaneta’s truck for several minutes after the earlier confrontation.

Investigators collected video footage from multiple cameras in the area and canvassed for witnesses.

Video obtained from Western Kentucky University Police Department showed a black Nissan Rogue beside Lopez-Urdaneta’s truck near the time of the shooting, and Poore said that police collected footage from other locations that appeared to show the Rogue and a red Chevrolet Suburban following the truck over a 10-minute period along Russellville Road, University Boulevard and Old Morgantown Road before the shooting.

A witness who spoke to city police reported witnessing a confrontation between Lopez-Urdaneta and another person outside the nightclub and hearing a loud pop that he believed was a gunshot as he tried to approach the Lopez-Urdaneta’s truck.

Poore testified that video footage reviewed by police appeared to show the Nissan Rogue occasionally traveling at a high rate of speed, sometimes with its headlights turned off for extended periods.

Detectives located a Nissan Rogue on Glen Lily Road on the afternoon of Feb. 15 that appeared to match the suspect’s vehicle and detained Ramirez and another person who were inside the vehicle.

“There appeared to be bullet defects on the passenger side as well as a defect on the passenger side mirror where a bullet was still lodged,” Poore said while describing the Rogue.

Ramirez spoke with detectives and said he had been driving the Rogue on the night of the incident, telling police that he was at a residence on Collegeview Drive after being at Club Havana earlier in the night.

“Ramirez advised he was at the Collegeview Drive address when he was informed that there had been an altercation involving one of his friends,” Poore said.

According to the detective, Ramirez claimed that he and three other people got into the Nissan Rogue and traveled to St. Charles Street and that Lopez-Urdaneta had shot at them at some point, leading Bryan Lopez to return fire.

Poore said he asked Ramirez about the manner in which he was driving and about efforts to cut off Lopez-Urdaneta’s vehicle in traffic, and the detective testified that Ramirez tried to stop Lopez-Urdaneta so that police would be made aware that the truck had been stopped.

Ramirez did not contact police before Lopez-Urdaneta was found wounded, Poore said.

Poore asked Ramirez directly about the shooting on University Boulevard.

“He made the comment that he was just driving and that after the shooting occurred he looked in the rearview mirror and saw the victim’s vehicle in the ditch,” Poore said. “He advised that he assumed the victim had been hit during the shooting.

According to arrest citations, Jason Lopez told city police on Feb. 15 that he had a handgun in his bedroom, which led detectives to obtain a search warrant for his residence and collect a spent shell casing from there.

That shell casing matched shell casings found at the scene of the shooting, according to court records and Poore’s testimony.

Jason Lopez contacted BGPD on Feb. 25 to provide more information, his arrest citation said.

“While speaking with Lopez, he was able to provide facts about what happened before the shooting and facts about what happened after the shooting, but when I asked him about things that happened during the shooting, he advised he was too intoxicated to remember,” Poore wrote in an arrest citation.

Police arrested Jason Lopez on March 2.

BGPD also spoke with Duron on Feb. 25, and Duron reportedly admitted to driving the Suburban on the night of the incident, telling detectives that he had been at Club Havana earlier in the night and that the altercation there involved Lopez-Urdaneta and one of the passengers in the Suburban, an arrest citation said.

Duron reportedly said he dropped off his passengers after the confrontation, but later told detectives that he did follow Lopez-Urdaneta’s truck.

City police made contact with Galindo Hernandez on March 2 and during an interview with detectives he reportedly said that he was the passenger in the Suburban during the altercation, and that afterward he contacted Jason Lopez and provided him a description and location of Lopez-Urdaneta’s truck and details of the fight, according to an arrest citation.

A review of Jason Lopez’s cellphone revealed seven calls from Galindo Hernandez to Lopez in a 10-minute period shortly before Lopez-Urdaneta’s shooting, records show.