Omari Elijah Lyles, 30, was fatally shot on March 18, 2024, in American Canyon, California.

Lyles had prior run-ins with the law: a 2015 Napa County arrest for possession of a narcotic controlled substance and a 2019 American Canyon Police Department notice seeking him for violating state parole, with additional felony warrants from Contra Costa County for escape and firearm possession. The community response included 94 candles lit on an online gun violence memorial site.

Few concrete details about motive or timeline are available publicly. If anyone has information about Omari Lyles’s death or saw activity in American Canyon on or around March 18, 2024, please share what we don’t yet know.