Fahness Lutalo, a 44-year-old gym owner from Tustin, California, was shot multiple times and killed inside his gym, O.C. Boxing & MMA Academy on Newport Boulevard on March 24, 2016. The shooting occurred around noon while Lutalo was coaching a student; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses and acquaintances say Lutalo had built the gym from the ground up and that it was one of the few black-owned businesses in Orange County.

The suspect, 53-year-old Kirk Vernell Price of Santa Ana, fled in a black Chevrolet Spark but was arrested shortly after the incident; he turned himself in the following day. Price had a criminal history including robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, and parole violations and had been previously banned from the gym after aggressive behavior and threats. Prosecutors charged him with murder, personal discharge of a firearm causing death, and being a felon in possession of a handgun; reports say jealousy and long-standing personal conflicts between the two men motivated the attack.