Joseph Frank Garcia, 23, of Orange, California, was found dead on February 8, 2017, in Santa Ana. His body was discovered face down in an alley behind a vacant Food 4 Less at the 1900 block of North Grand Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper torso. The Santa Ana Police Department classified the incident as a homicide and opened an investigation.

More than a month later authorities arrested 24-year-old Joshua Anthony Encinas of Riverside. Both men were reported to have ties to local gangs. Encinas was charged in connection with Garcia’s death; he later pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and personal use of a firearm and received a nine-year sentence on June 22, 2018 after the murder charge was dropped as part of a plea agreement. A day after Garcia’s body was found, a relative attending a vigil was fatally struck by a driver she had been arguing with.

Are there details from that night or from the area behind the Food 4 Less that anyone can share?