A routine Saturday evening at La Vaquita Corp. Deli in Copiague, New York, ended in violence on December 12, 2020, when a 62-year-old customer, Dionicio Calderon-Oseguera, entered the store and opened fire. The first person struck was a customer, 47-year-old Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, who was killed at the scene. The gunman then shot the deli’s owner, 61-year-old Bolivar Rodriguez, in the head.

Rodriguez was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries and died there two days later, on December 14, 2020. Two other men, Juan Ramone Avilla Roque, 30, and Daniel E. Acosta, 40, were wounded. Rodriguez’s son, Bolivar Rodriguez Jr., was in the deli’s lower level and was with his father in his final moments.

Calderon-Oseguera was arrested the day after the shooting; during the investigation he reportedly said he had reacted to something said about him in the deli, and was charged in connection with the attack.