Jose Alejandro Rojas Jr., 42, a Victorville resident and a decorated Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps who served in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, was found with a gunshot wound on the 14000 block of Burning Tree Drive in Victorville on the morning of June 4, 2022. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Homicide detectives from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department opened an investigation.

Investigators say the fatal shooting followed an altercation between Rojas and a 20-year-old man, Jeremiah Ponce. Deputies arrested Ponce after the incident, and he was taken into custody pending review by the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office. The community and Rojas’s family mourned the loss of a veteran with multiple combat tours.

Does anyone in the Victorville area have information about what led to the altercation on Burning Tree Drive?