On September 21, 2020, 23-year-old Nicholas Rivera was shot and killed at a house party in the unincorporated Riverside County community of Good Hope, west of Perris. Deputies from the Perris Sheriff’s Station responded about 12:52 a.m. to a private residence on Post Road; they found Rivera unconscious with a gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Perris Sheriff’s Station and the Sheriff’s Central Homicide Unit investigated. Authorities arrested another 23-year-old man, Nicholas Paul Rivera, identified as the alleged shooter; the two men were described by family members as friends. Nicholas Paul Rivera was booked at the Cois Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on suspicion of first-degree murder, with allegations of using a firearm and causing great bodily injury, and held on $1 million bail pending an initial court appearance at the Riverside Hall of Justice.

The motive has not been disclosed. Does anyone have information about the party, the relationship between the men, or what led up to the shooting?