Cruzita Plascencia, 27, was fatally shot just after 1 a.m. on July 5, 2025, outside a home on Harbor Drive in the unincorporated Bay Point area of Contra Costa County. Deputies from the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Muir Station responded about 1:02 a.m. to reports of shots fired and found Plascencia with gunshot wounds; despite lifesaving efforts and transport to a hospital she was pronounced dead.

Authorities identified her as a Pittsburg resident and said the shooting occurred in front of a residence, the early-morning quiet broken by the gunfire that drew deputies, paramedics and fire crews to the scene. Detectives began canvassing the neighborhood and the sheriff’s office asked anyone with information to come forward. By the close of the initial investigation period no suspect, motive or arrests had been announced.

Did anyone in the Bay Point or Pittsburg area see or hear anything that night that could help investigators?