Delvin Diaz, 33, was fatally shot on Saturday, May 27, 2023, at a family birthday party in Brooklyn. Diaz was struck six times while shielding his young autistic son; the child was not harmed. Diaz was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. His 31-year-old wife sustained a graze wound to her shoulder and was treated and released.

Friends and family remember Diaz as kind-hearted and devoted; he lived in Far Rockaway, Queens, had been with his wife for nine years, and worked to support the family. Gioliver Tineo, who is related to Diaz by marriage, surrendered to police and is facing murder charges with an arraignment scheduled in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

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