Feliciano Felix Curiel, known as Felix, was 36 when he was shot and killed in the early hours of September 6, 2025, in East Hollywood. The incident began as a dispute between drivers waiting in the McDonald’s drive-thru on North Western Avenue. According to county records, he died of gunshot wounds to the torso and was pronounced at a hospital later that morning; his fiancée was wounded in the leg.

Witnesses and family accounts describe a brief collision or scrape in line, tempers flaring, both vehicles pulling forward in the drive-thru, and then gunfire at close range. Police identified 21-year-old Humberto Delgado as the shooter; Delgado called police, was detained and a firearm was recovered. He was booked on suspicion of voluntary manslaughter and later charged with voluntary manslaughter and assault with a semiautomatic firearm, with enhancements for personal use of a gun and great bodily injury. Delgado reportedly claimed self-defense and posted $100,000 bail.

Community pages and fundraisers portray Curiel as a devoted partner who had been celebrating an engagement milestone and who stepped between the shooter and his fiancée. What did readers who lived near North Western Avenue that morning see or hear?