On the night of July 26, 2026, 18-year-old Moses Mendoza was fatally shot outside a 7-Eleven on Market Street in Yuba City. The Sutter County Sheriff’s Office and Yuba City Police Department report the shooting happened at about 10:54 p.m. after a physical altercation; multiple gunshots were fired. Mendoza was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. A second victim, 21-year-old Fernando Cortez, died at the scene, and a 19-year-old man suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the hand.

The California Department of Justice assisted local police with processing the scene. Mendoza’s family described him as the oldest of seven siblings, employed by the Yuba City Unified School District and hoping to join the military; they said he had no criminal record or gang ties. As of late July 2026, no arrests had been announced and the investigation was ongoing.

Did anyone in the Yuba City area see or hear anything that night that could help identify who was responsible?