Curtis Adams was a 21-year-old Navy sailor who was fatally shot in San Diego on October 27, 2018. Around 2 a.m. he stopped to offer help to a vehicle that appeared stranded on the side of the freeway. The car had been disabled earlier that night when its tires were shot out during a burglarized-vehicle incident outside a Mount Hope home.

The occupants of the disabled vehicle were Edson Acuna, 26; Brandon Acuna, 23; Harvey Liberato, 26; and Susana Galvan, 40. As Adams approached to assist, Edson Acuna shot him in the chest, apparently believing Adams was someone they had exchanged gunfire with earlier. Prosecutors said the shooting was intended to conceal the occupants involvement in the prior burglary and to avoid being caught with stolen property.

Court proceedings resulted in convictions and pleas. Edson Acuna was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery, burglary, multiple firearm counts, and a special-circumstance allegation of committing the murder during a burglary, and was sentenced to life without parole. Brandon Acuna and Harvey Liberato pleaded to voluntary manslaughter and received prison terms; Susana Galvan pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact and was sentenced to three years in county jail.

Did anyone in the neighborhood or anyone driving that stretch of freeway that night see the stalled car or the occupants before the shooting?