Adrian Sandoval was 21 and from Oxnard when he was shot and killed at an underground party held inside an abandoned Goodwill on Saviers Road on the night of March 12, 2022. About 100 people were at the event without the property owner’s knowledge. A gunman entered shortly after 9:30 p.m.; Adrian was struck by a single gunshot and was pronounced dead at the scene. He left behind a seven-month-old daughter and family members who remembered him for his warmth and care.

Two other men, 19-year-old Diego Mares and 24-year-old Arkangel Childs, were seriously injured in the same shooting but survived. Oxnard detectives arrested 19-year-old Willis Nichols in July 2022 and charged him with Adrian’s murder plus attempted murder and assault for the other victims, linking him also to a non-fatal Christmas Eve 2021 shooting in a Target parking lot. Prosecutors said Adrian and the other men at the party were unarmed and that Nichols acted seeking revenge on a gang he believed Adrian belonged to.

Anyone who knew Adrian or who has information about the March 12, 2022 shooting is asked to come forward.