Chelsea Ruby Pacheco was 22 and a pre-school teacher at KinderCare in Oceanside, California when she was killed on June 4, 2022. She was a passenger in a car near Bush Street and Archer Street that had an interaction with a pedestrian later identified as Vicente Huerta. As the vehicle drove away, Huerta opened fire; a bullet struck Pacheco and she was pronounced dead at Tri-City Medical Center.

Investigators identified and arrested 27-year-old Vicente Huerta roughly two months after the shooting; he was apprehended in Mexico and charged with firing at an occupied vehicle and gang-related offenses. In his first trial he was convicted on those charges and sentenced to 89 years to life, while the jury deadlocked on the murder count. In a subsequent trial Huerta was convicted of second-degree murder and a gun allegation and received an additional 60 years to life to be served concurrently with the prior sentence.

Pacheco’s co-workers and students remembered her as kind-hearted and joyful; colleagues set up a GoFundMe to support her family. Does anyone have information about Chelsea’s last evening near Bush and Archer that might help clarify what happened?