Marcella Garcia was a 16-year-old student from Oakland who was found dead in a Sacramento apartment on March 17, 2022. Sacramento police responded to a report of a gunshot wound at a residence on L Street and discovered Marcella with a gunshot wound to the head; a firearm was recovered at the scene. She was pronounced dead at the scene and the Sacramento Police Department’s Homicide Unit opened an investigation.

Marcella had been reported missing to the Oakland Police Department on March 15, 2022. She attended Castlemont High School and was living in a group home. Many questions remain about how she came to be in Sacramento and the circumstances that led to her death.

If anyone has information about Marcella’s movements in mid-March 2022 or saw her near L Street in Sacramento, please share what you know with the Sacramento Police Homicide Unit.