Juan Manuel Elias, known as Juan El Gordo Manuel, was fatally shot on August 7, 2019, in Livermore, California. Officers responding around 4:06 a.m. found the 31-year-old on the ground between a Walmart and a Kohl’s on the 2700 block of Las Positas Road.

Elias and another transient, 30-year-old John Inocencio, stayed in the same homeless encampment near a creek close to the scene. Police say the shooting followed a long-standing feud between the two men. Inocencio was identified as the primary suspect and was arrested later that day in Elk Grove after a statewide alert for two vehicles. He was held on suspicion of murder.

Witnesses from the encampment described an ongoing contentious relationship. Inocencio initially told officers he acted in self-defense, but investigators reported physical evidence and witness testimony that contradicted that account, including bullets found in the ground next to Elias’ body.

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