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Carina Mancera was 26 when she was fatally shot on August 6, 2016, in Long Beach, California. She was walking home from the grocery store with her boyfriend, Luis Anaya, and their 4-year-old daughter, Jennabel Anaya, when a man approached and began shooting at about 10:20 p.m. at East 9th Street and Locust Avenue. Carina was pronounced dead at the scene; Jennabel was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead shortly after midnight. Luis Anaya escaped without physical injury. The shooter fled on foot and the motive was initially unclear.

Long Beach Police detectives investigated and linked DNA from a separate August 27, 2016, arrest for driving a stolen vehicle to the crime scene. On November 6, 2016, 22-year-old Brandon Ivan Colbert of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was arrested and later charged in the case. The prosecution alleged he had hidden behind a sign and opened fire on the family without provocation. Does anyone have information about Carina, Jennabel, or that intersection on the night of August 6, 2016?