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Tristan Thomas Beaudette, a 35-year-old research scientist from Irvine, California, was shot and killed while camping with his two young daughters at Malibu Creek State Park in Calabasas on June 22, 2018. He was inside a tent with the children, aged 2 and 4, when he was struck in the upper torso about 4:45 a.m. and pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 5 a.m. The shooting happened in the 1900 block of Las Virgenes Road, an area later noted to have several unsolved shootings dating back to November 2016.

Investigators examined whether Beaudette’s death was linked to at least three other shootings near the park over the year before his death. In October 2018 a manhunt ended with the arrest of 43-year-old Anthony Rauda, who was later charged in January 2019 with Beaudette’s murder, multiple counts of attempted murder including for the children, and several burglaries; he pleaded not guilty and a judge denied a defense bid to dismiss the charges. The case against Rauda includes surveillance footage, forensic analysis and his criminal history.

Did anyone camp or travel along Las Virgenes Road around June 22, 2018 and see anything that could help the investigation?