Izabella Raquedan-Retuta, 17, was shot and killed on May 12, 2025, inside the bedroom of her family’s home in San Leandro, California. The death was confirmed in news reports and local memorial notices; community remembrances and gun-violence memorial rolls recorded her name as the city’s first homicide of 2025.

Contemporaneous reporting and charging documents say the shooting involved her 18-year-old boyfriend, Angelo Ray. Authorities allege the two were horsing around with a handgun Ray later said he bought on the street and that had been reported stolen. Ray told investigators he believed the gun was not loaded when it discharged. An arrest followed and prosecutors initially charged Ray with murder.

After a preliminary hearing in July, an Alameda County judge rejected the murder theory and ordered the matter to proceed on a lesser count of involuntary manslaughter, releasing Ray from custody without bail under monitoring conditions while the case continued. Family and the community held online memorials and tributes in the weeks after Izabella’s death.

If anyone knew Izabella or has information about what happened that night, please share what is known with investigators.