Juan Gonzalez, 48, of Cathedral City, California, was shot dead on March 24, 2022. The afternoon shooting happened near Shifting Sands Trail and Mission Indian Trail; multiple callers alerted the Cathedral City Police Department around 3:28 p.m. Officers found Gonzalez in the front yard of a residence with gunshot wounds, and paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Police quickly identified a suspect vehicle and located it in the 35700 block of Date Palm Drive. A person of interest, 29-year-old Cathedral City resident Daniel Morales Jr., was detained, then arrested at about 4:44 p.m. the same day. He was charged with murder and related counts including discharge of a firearm from a vehicle and allegations tied to criminal street gang activity; he was arraigned March 28, 2022, and held on $2,000,000 bail.

Investigators later identified a second suspect, a 17-year-old, who the Riverside County Gang Impact Team arrested and booked into juvenile hall on May 20, 2022, on multiple charges including murder. The case was described as gang-related; police asked the public for information. Did anyone in Cathedral City see or hear anything near Shifting Sands Trail and Mission Indian Trail that afternoon?