Pete Valverde, a 60-year-old White man from Stockton, was found with a gunshot wound near West Hazelton Avenue and South Harrison Street in the city’s Seaport District on the morning of Sunday, August 31, 2025. Officers arrived about 8:30 a.m.; lifesaving measures were attempted and he was taken to a hospital, where he died. The San Joaquin County Medical Examiner identified him as Pete Valverde; some listings record his death as September 1, 2025.

Detectives working the scene quickly developed a lead. By late afternoon that same day, Stockton police and San Joaquin County sheriff’s deputies stopped a vehicle and arrested 72-year-old James Allen in a traffic stop. He was booked into the county jail on suspicion of homicide and on narcotics-related and firearm-related violations noted in subsequent reports. Officials confirmed the location, timeline, and the identities of the victim and the suspect but did not release a motive or the events that led up to the shooting.

Anyone who was in the Seaport District on the morning of August 31, 2025, or who has information about the shooting or the stopped vehicle is asked to come forward.