In a gut-wrenching cover story titled “Everyone Knew,” Santa Fe Reporter staff writer Corey Pein details the years of missed warning signs that foretold, and perhaps could have prevented the night in late May when police say Marino Leyba, Jr. shot his pregnant 17-year-old girlfriend and her father.

“The Lovatos’ murder was heralded by more red flags than the Beijing Olympics,” Pein writes.

Leyba had previously threatened to kill another young lover. And his parents’ marriage was marked by alcoholism, domestic violence and possibly sexual abuse. In fact, Pein writes, “Dozens of cops, lawyers, judges, social workers, teachers, friends and family knew Reno was a troubled kid from a home where terrifying things happened as predictably as birthdays. They knew, from experience, that abuse follows families like a shadow. They knew Reno had a gun.”