Erick Galeana, 22, of San Pablo was shot and killed in Richmond, California, on September 1, 2020. The shooting happened in the Belding Woods neighborhood near 17th Street and Roosevelt Avenue shortly after 3:30 p.m. Police found two people with gunshot wounds; Galeana was critically injured, taken to a trauma center, and died of his wounds. A second victim, a 20-year-old Richmond resident, suffered non life-threatening injuries.

Investigators say the attack began as a car-to-car confrontation. Witnesses gave police a description of a suspect vehicle; detectives concluded occupants of that vehicle fired at the victims while they were in their car. The victims’ vehicle then crashed into a parked car and at least one person from the suspect vehicle fired again before fleeing. The shooting was recorded as Richmond’s 12th homicide of 2020. No arrests have been announced and detectives continue to ask anyone with information to contact Homicide Detective Aaron Mandell or the anonymous tip line.

Did anyone in the area around 17th Street and Roosevelt Avenue that afternoon see or hear anything that could help investigators?