On the evening of May 24, 2024, 27-year-old Diontae Gayden was fatally shot near the intersection of Hiller and Irwin Streets in Belmont, California, close to O’Donnell Park. Residents reported hearing three gunshots and saw bullet holes in a parked car. Belmont police found Gayden with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene despite emergency aid.

Gayden, a San Francisco resident and automotive technician at Autobahn Motors in Belmont, was remembered by family and community as outgoing, kind, and constantly smiling. Police, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office and the Crime Lab opened a joint investigation, called the shooting isolated and urged anyone with surveillance or dashcam footage or other information to come forward. No arrests or public identifications of suspects have been announced.

Did anyone in the community see or record anything that night that could help investigators?