Federico Moreno Jr was 37 when he was shot and killed on June 8, 2015, at El Potrero Night Club in Arvin, California. Moreno and another man, Jorge Zavala, died in the attack; a third man was wounded but survived. Juan Pablo Vega was identified as the shooter; he fled the scene and was later captured on Highway 58 near Cottonwood Road by U.S. Marshals and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation personnel.

Investigators say Vega’s girlfriend, Lourdes Olvera, urged him to come to the club to confront men she said were bothering her; that confrontation escalated into the fatal shooting. Legal action followed: Vega faced capital exposure, later pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder, and was sentenced to 69 years to life in prison in April 2024. Olvera’s 2016 murder trial ended in a hung jury; she later pleaded guilty to two counts of soliciting a murder and a count of threatening a witness and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.