Salvatore Belvedere, 22, died of gunshot wounds after being shot in the parking lot of the Westfield Mission Valley mall in San Diego on December 23, 2013. He and his brother’s fiancée, Ilona Flint, were both struck in the attack; Flint was found dead at the scene with a gunshot wound to the head, while Salvatore was critically injured with gunshot wounds to the head and torso and died three days later on December 24, 2013.

Salvatore’s brother Gianni Belvedere was reported missing shortly after the mall shooting. On January 17, 2014, Gianni’s decomposing body was found in the trunk of a car in Riverside, California; he had also been shot in the head. Authorities later linked the three deaths by ballistic evidence.

Carlo Mercado was arrested in June 2014 after weapons and silencers were found in his vehicle; one of the guns was ballistically tied to the killings and Mercado’s DNA was found on an item in Gianni’s trunk. The killings were described by investigators as a senseless, apparently random act rather than the result of a personal dispute. Anyone with information about Salvatore, Gianni, or Ilona Flint is asked to come forward.