Ethan Morse, 22, of Atwater, California, was shot and killed on March 15, 2019, shortly after dropping his daughter off at daycare. The shooting happened around 10 a.m. near Fir Avenue and Winton Way in Atwater. He was taken to Mercy Hospital in Merced but died of his injuries.

Investigators described the killing as a drive-by shooting and identified 26-year-old Dagoberto Penaloza as the suspected shooter. Penaloza, last known to live in Palo Alto, was also wanted in connection with an attempted homicide in Menlo Park; authorities issued a $1 million arrest warrant for the murder and an additional $11 million warrant tied to the attempted murder. Surveillance footage reportedly showed Penaloza on the day of the murder, and he was known to work in landscaping in the Bay Area and the Modesto-Red Bluff area.

Ethan was the son of former Merced County District Attorney Larry Morse. He had previously been arrested in 2014 on a murder accusation but was later declared factually innocent; he then won a civil-rights lawsuit and was awarded over half a million dollars, money he planned to use to endow a wrestling scholarship at Golden Valley High School, where he had been a standout wrestler.

Does anyone have information about Penaloza’s whereabouts or about the shooting near Fir Avenue and Winton Way that could help investigators?