Emanuel Contreras, 50, was shot and killed on September 12, 2018, in Bakersfield, California. The shooting occurred at T&T Trucking, where Contreras worked, when 54-year-old Javier Casarez confronted him armed with a .50-caliber handgun and fatally shot him. Casarez also shot and killed his wife, Petra Maribel Bellanos Casarez, at the same location, and then carried out additional killings that evening.

After the T&T Trucking murders, Casarez killed Antonio Valdez, 50, in front of Bear Mountain Sports, and later shot and killed Eliseo Garcia and his daughter Laura Garcia, 32, at a home on Breckenridge Road. The spree ended when Casarez was spotted by a Kern County deputy on Edison Highway and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound; a woman and child he had briefly hijacked were allowed to leave unharmed. Court records show Casarez had filed for divorce the previous December and the divorce was finalized June 14, 2018, with family and custody disputes noted, but investigators have not confirmed a definitive motive.

Did anyone in Bakersfield know Emanuel or have information about him or his work at T&T Trucking?