Ignacio Berber Zavala, 43, was shot the evening of August 22, 2025, near a homeless encampment behind the 30000 block of San Antonio Street in Hayward. Officers responding just after 8 p.m. to a reported medical emergency found him with a gunshot wound; he was transported for treatment and later died. Hayward police opened a homicide investigation under case number 2025-048472.

Detectives developed a picture of a dispute within the encampment that escalated into deadly violence. Both men were said to live at the encampment.

On September 2, investigators arrested 49-year-old Rosario Raul Rodriguez Cazares; prosecutors later charged him with murder and he was booked into Santa Rita Jail pending court proceedings. Family and friends have been publicly mourning and making burial arrangements for Ignacio Berber Zavala. Did anyone in the Hayward area see or hear anything that night near San Antonio Street and Huntwood Avenue?