Fernando Allen Giffen-Vallejo, a 19-year-old Hispanic/Latino man from Cottage Grove, Oregon, was killed in a shooting in Eugene on March 14, 2023. Officers responding just before 12:30 a.m. to reports of a dispute and gunfire at East 13th Avenue and Patterson Street found two people with minor gunshot wounds and a vehicle that had crashed into an urgent care building. Inside the crashed car was Giffen-Vallejo, who was deceased.

The Eugene Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit opened an investigation. On the morning of March 17 investigators arrested 20-year-old Elijah Michael Pruitt of Eugene in connection with the shooting; one report noted Pruitt worked at the Fat Shack restaurant near the scene. Pruitt was charged with second-degree murder, second-degree assault, and unlawful possession of a firearm.

Does anyone have information about what happened that night at East 13th and Patterson or about Fernando’s movements earlier that evening?