Ramiro Mosqueda Camacho III, 33, was found dead from a gunshot wound in the 600 block of Lewis Street in Yakima in the early hours of Wednesday, May 17, 2023. Police were called for shots fired around 1:20 a.m.; the Yakima County Coroner ruled the death a homicide. Court records note Camacho was a member of the Sureño gang, but law enforcement has said they do not believe the killing was gang-related.

Camacho’s death echoed an earlier family tragedy: his brother, Cuahutemoc Camacho Salamanca, was shot and killed on May 10, 2017, two blocks away in an unsolved case that police described as gang-related. The 2023 slaying was the eighth homicide in Yakima and the fifteenth in Yakima County that year. No arrests or suspect identifications have been publicly announced and the investigation is ongoing. A Moment of Blessing ceremony was held near where he was found as the community mourned.

If anyone has information that could help investigators, please contact the Yakima Police Department or Yakima County Crime Stoppers.