Ronnie Leyba, an 18-year-old from Montclair, California, was killed on February 4, 2022, after gunfire erupted at the Montclair Place shopping mall. Police found Leyba with multiple gunshot wounds in the mall’s east parking lot near the LazyDog restaurant; he was taken to a hospital but did not survive. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s records list his death at the scene.

Investigators described the shooting as gang-related and said an altercation broke out before the shots were fired. In April 2022 police executed search warrants in several cities and arrested four suspects: Amarionte Wright, 18, of Pomona; Joseph Diazdeleon, 22, of San Dimas; Zellous Smith, 20, of San Bernardino; and Jamil Smith, 19, of Riverside. Each was charged with murder and booked into the West Valley Detention Center.

The Montclair Police Department continued to ask the public for information about the case. Did anyone who was at Montclair Place that day see what happened or have information that could help investigators?