On June 3, 2022, 24-year-old Long Beach resident Duwayane Thomas was shot and killed in a gang-related attack near 14th Street and Walnut Avenue at about 10:55 p.m. The Long Beach Police Department reports three men approached Thomas and opened fire without provocation. Paramedics transported him to a hospital, where he died of his injuries.

The shooters also fired at a nearby woman who was driving; she was not known to Thomas and suffered multiple non-life-threatening gunshot wounds and was treated at a hospital. Investigators later executed a multi-location warrant service on July 21, 2022, in Long Beach, Signal Hill and Los Angeles, arresting five people: 21-year-old Filasifoki Xavier Pio of Los Angeles, 19-year-old Santiago Rivera of Signal Hill, a 15-year-old male from Long Beach, 47-year-old Michael Keith Levine of Long Beach, and 19-year-old Emery Jezabel Hinojos of Long Beach. Pio, Rivera and the 15-year-old were booked on murder and attempted murder charges; Levine faced a felon-in-possession charge; Hinojos was charged with possession of a firearm with a prior juvenile court sustained petition, accessory after the fact and concealing evidence. The motive was described as gang-related and the case was presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for filing consideration.

Did anyone in the area that night see the attack or the people fleeing the scene?