Bryan Anthony Mares, a 23-year-old Latino who was homeless and staying in the Artesia area, was fatally shot on March 9, 2019, around 9:44 p.m. in the 11800 block of Arkansas Street. He was struck by gunfire while walking near Pioneer Boulevard, attempted to hide behind a parked vehicle, and collapsed. A passerby called 911; Mares was pronounced dead at the hospital at 11:15 p.m. The Medical Examiner listed the cause of death as a gunshot wound to the torso.

Investigators linked Mares’s killing to an earlier shooting about 20 minutes prior a few blocks away, in which a man near 168th Street and Clarksdale Avenue was shot in the arm and returned fire at a passing vehicle. Detectives say the vehicle, a dark-blue Chevrolet Impala carrying four men, circled back and encountered Mares, who had no gang affiliations and was not the apparent target. Deputies later found a matching car parked on Cheshire Street in Norwalk, recovered a semiautomatic pistol, and arrested four men identified as Anthony Martinez Garibo, 19; Adrian Angel Nunez, 18; Danny Orozco, 19; and Isaac Adam Miranda, 18. They were charged with murder, attempted murder, and shooting from a vehicle and held on $3.29 million bail each.

Did anyone in the Artesia or Norwalk area see the dark-blue Impala that night or have information about the earlier shooting near 168th Street and Clarksdale Avenue?