Eziquio Ruiz-Saucedo, 25, of National City, was killed on November 7, 2020, after a violent altercation in the parking lot of Market Creek Plaza in Lincoln Park, San Diego. The fight involved Ruiz-Saucedo and a 31-year-old man from National City; both were reportedly shot during a struggle over a firearm. Ruiz-Saucedo died at the scene and the other man was hospitalized with non-life-threatening wounds.

San Diego Police Homicide Unit investigators recovered a gun at the scene and ran ballistics tests, but assembling a clear timeline proved difficult because the surviving participant did not cooperate and there were no clear eyewitness accounts. The surviving man, Michael Ortiz, was charged with murder and related firearms enhancements; he pleaded not guilty and was held on $1 million bail with a status conference set for January 2021.

What did anyone in the area that night see or hear that could clarify how a fistfight became a shooting?