On April 22, 2009, 13-year-old Alex Cortes of King City, California, was shot and killed while playing video games with friends in a garage on Beech Street. Witnesses say assailants believed to be gang members approached the house and fired multiple rounds into the garage; Alex was struck in the head and died at the scene. An 18-year-old, Abel Silva, died the next day at a hospital. Three others were wounded, one with a shattered spinal cord and another critically injured.

The King City Police and the Monterey County Joint Gang Task Force investigated, received public tips, and developed leads but made no arrests. Witnesses reported the shooters fled in a van that may have been green. The National Organization of Parents of Murdered Children has offered a reward for information leading to arrests and convictions in the deaths of Alex Cortes and Abel Silva.

Anyone who was in King City that night or who has information about a green van or gang activity in the area is asked to come forward.