Derrick Carlisle was 27 when he was fatally shot in Riverside, California, in the early hours of August 17, 2019. Carlisle, a Black man from Moreno Valley who worked for the California Department of Motor Vehicles, was at a hookah bar near University and Iowa avenues when two men confronted him inside and shot him in the upper body. The attack was described as unprovoked and robbery was not a motive. Officers found Carlisle wounded about 3:15 a.m. in a nearby parking structure on the 1400 block of University Avenue; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

He is survived by his fiancée and two young daughters. A multiagency investigation identified two suspects. Dontay Dwayne Davis was arrested August 13, 2020, in Corona, and Andrew Lewis Jones was arrested September 12, 2020, in Scottsdale, Arizona; both were charged in the killing. After a preliminary hearing, a Riverside County judge ruled in July 2022 there was sufficient evidence for both to stand trial on first-degree murder with a lying-in-wait special circumstance and related enhancements, and both were being held without bail.

Did anyone who knew Derrick or his routines around that area see anything that night?