Reynaldo Cantu III, 40, was shot and killed on December 2, 2022, at his home in Newark, California. Authorities describe the killing as a revenge killing. A Ring camera on the property captured the confrontation: 52-year-old Louie Sixto Lopez approached Cantu while Cantu sat in his parked car in the driveway, demanded to know the whereabouts of Cantu’s son, and then shot Cantu twice. Cantu died at the scene.

Lopez was arrested the next day in San Jose and booked into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. He has been charged with murder and a gun enhancement; the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office is handling the case. The motive given in charging documents links Lopez’s actions to the October 3, 2022, death of his 16-year-old daughter, Danielle Lopez, who died after being struck by multiple vehicles on Interstate 680 in San Jose after exiting a vehicle driven by Cantu’s son.

The Cantu family and the Newark community have been left mourning. Does anyone have information about the events leading up to December 2, 2022, or about either family that could help clarify what happened?