On November 12, 2024, at about 3:30 a.m., officers responded to a 9-1-1 report of a shooting in the 1800 block of Lander Avenue in Turlock. They found 18-year-old Jose Tamayo-Morales of Modesto with at least one gunshot wound; despite immediate CPR by an officer he was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators say the shooting followed an altercation between Tamayo-Morales and a suspect.

Witness statements and physical evidence led police to identify a suspect and a vehicle. Using license plate reader technology, and with assistance from the Modesto and Ceres Police Departments, authorities located and arrested 59-year-old Modesto resident Troy Cannon hours after the shooting; Cannon was booked into the Stanislaus County Public Safety Center on murder charges. Tamayo-Morales, a Modesto High School graduate, was engaged to Gabriela Mendoza, who was expecting their child; funeral services were held November 27, 2024, at St. Jude’s Catholic Church in Ceres with interment at Ceres Memorial Park.

Anyone with additional information is asked to contact Detective Giovacchini at (209) 668-6539 or the Turlock Police tip line at (209) 668-5550 extension 6780; anonymous tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at (209) 521-4636 or online. Did anyone in the area see or hear anything that night?