On July 29, 2024, at about 4:05 a.m., 20-year-old Jennifer Ninel Rodriguez was found near the entrance of a business close to 600 South Harbor Boulevard in Santa Ana with multiple gunshot wounds to her upper torso. Orange County Fire Authority personnel provided emergency care, and Rodriguez was taken to a local hospital, where she died of her injuries.

Santa Ana Police Homicide Detectives determined the shooting was gang-related. They named 42-year-old Santa Ana resident Roland Rocha as the primary suspect. With assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service, Rocha was taken into custody in Compton on September 3, 2024, and was booked into the Santa Ana Jail on murder charges under Penal Code § 187(a); an arraignment was scheduled for September 5, 2024.

Anyone who may have information about the shooting is asked to contact the Santa Ana Police Department’s Homicide Section or Orange County Crime Stoppers.