Deon Fontaine Peterson, 27, was shot dead on November 1, 2015, in San Diego’s Colina Del Sol neighborhood. Peterson and Joseph Anthony Ponder were sitting in a car parked outside a store on El Cajon Boulevard near 52nd Street around 12:20 a.m. when both men were struck multiple times and killed. A woman in the car suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound; a fourth occupant was uninjured.

Investigators later charged Leiga X. Tauiliili in the double homicide. Tauiliili, who was a juvenile at the time of the shooting, was tried as an adult and entered guilty pleas in October 2019 to two counts of murder and one count of mayhem. A sentencing hearing was set for January 10 following those pleas.

If anyone knew Deon Peterson, Joseph Ponder, or has information about the events that night, please share what can help the families and the record.