Joshua Samarripas, 36, was shot multiple times and died after being found by deputies around 8:30 p.m. on December 30, 2022, near Pesante Road and Mesa Drive in east Bakersfield. He was taken to Kern Medical and pronounced dead at 11:54 p.m.

Investigators say Samarripas had been followed by a pickup truck as he walked on Center Street. Surveillance footage reportedly shows the truck stopping and its driver, identified as Richard Cortez, exiting and firing two shots. Samarripas ran to the 900 block of Pesante Road and collapsed against a vehicle. The pickup was later found abandoned with a plastic cup inside bearing Cortez’s fingerprints.

Does anyone have information about Samarripas’s movements that evening or the pickup truck seen on surveillance?