Elias Victor Marcell Brooks was 22 and from Victorville when he was shot in a residential neighborhood on Sunday afternoon, March 29, 2026. Deputies were called to the 13000 block of Starshine Drive near Eugene Road just after 3:30 p.m. after reports of gunfire; Brooks was found with multiple gunshot wounds, taken to a hospital, and pronounced dead at 10:10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 31, 2026. The case was reclassified as a homicide and transferred to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Specialized Investigations Division, Homicide Detail.

In the hours after the shooting the suspect was not in custody, and investigators initially released no suspect description or motive. On April 2 a structure fire at the same Starshine Drive home was investigated as arson; no people were inside and two family dogs died. On April 3 investigators identified 18-year-old Michael Christopher Gallardo of Fontana; he turned himself in to Upland police and was booked on suspicion of murder and held without bail. Authorities did not publicly release a motive or describe any relationship between Brooks and Gallardo.

Did anyone in Victorville or the Starshine Drive area see or hear anything that afternoon or in the days afterward that could help investigators?