Four days after his 14th birthday year, Leonardo Gonzalez Jimenez was shot and killed while waiting at a bus stop in Oxnard on the evening of September 12, 2022. The shooting occurred about 7:45 p.m. in the 1300 block of South C Street; Leonardo was waiting for a family member when he was struck multiple times and later died at Ventura County Medical Center.

Oxnard police quickly treated the death as gang-related. On September 18, 2022, officers arrested a 15-year-old male from Oxnard in the 800 block of Elm Court; he was booked into Ventura County Juvenile Hall on suspicion of murder. Police said evidence linked the suspect to the shooting.

Leonardo was a student at Hueneme High School. The community responded with school support services, a family fundraiser that raised over $7,000, and a $25,000 city reward for information leading to arrests and convictions in homicide cases. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact detectives.