Mark Dwayne Scott was 31 when he was shot and killed on February 11, 2022, about 1:30 p.m. in front of the A-1 Liquor Store in a strip mall off North El Dorado Street in Stockton, California. The Stockton Police Department described the shooting as not random and said Scott was specifically targeted, but they did not disclose a motive in the initial reports.

Scott taught special education at Pulliam Elementary School and served as an assistant varsity baseball coach at Edison High School. His family, students and colleagues remembered him as kind and soft-spoken; the community held candlelight vigils and established a GoFundMe to support his fiancée and their unborn child. Investigators asked anyone with information to come forward and offered a reward for tips; an arrest had been announced in connection with the case.