Pima County Constable Deborah Martinez-Garibay was killed on August 25 while serving an eviction notice at Lind Commons Apartments after only five months on the job. Her family members shared memories of her while gathered at a home on the west side. 

Martinez-Garibay served 16 years in the Army and ran the Tucson chapter of an adaptive golf program for veterans called PGA HOPE. 

In March, Martinez-Garibay told the Star she wanted to become a constable for the same reason she joined the military shortly after 9/11.

“I just felt that it was wrong for me to sit at home when I knew that I could contribute, I knew that I had to go serve my country,” she said in a March interview. “And it’s the same thing with serving my community, I can see a need … for me to sit and watch things happening in my community, or my country, and not take part is just wrong.”

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