Gabriel Lozano, 35, of Hemet, California, was shot and killed on November 9, 2021. Deputies responded at about 5:58 a.m. to an assault with a deadly weapon call in the 26400 block of Columbia Street in unincorporated Hemet and found Lozano in front of a residence with a gunshot wound. He was given emergency medical aid and taken to a nearby hospital for surgery but died later that day.

Investigators from the Hemet Station and the Central Homicide Unit secured the scene and conducted a follow-up investigation. A suspect, 29-year-old Kelvin Smith of Hemet, was located and booked on suspicion of murder. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department asked anyone with information to contact investigators.

Are there details about the early-morning timeline or the location on Columbia Street that could help clarify what happened?