Justin Peoples was 30 when he was killed after stopping at a gas station in Tracy, California, in March 2022. A Navy veteran and father of two, Peoples went into the convenience store and had a brief encounter with a woman that quickly escalated into violence. Surveillance footage shows Jeremy Wayne Jones stabbing Peoples multiple times; shortly afterward Christina Lyn Garner entered and shot him in the head. Emergency services found Peoples alive but he died at a nearby hospital.

Police arrested Garner and Jones the day after the attack. Investigators reported evidence linking Jones to white supremacist imagery, including tattoos and social media content; the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office initially filed hate crime charges alongside first-degree murder counts, but the hate crime enhancements were later dropped before trial. Christopher Angelo Demenco was arrested and charged as an alleged accessory for helping the couple evade capture. The jury convicted Garner and Jones of first-degree murder in October 2025.

Does anyone have additional information about Peoples’ life in Tracy or the days leading up to the attack?