On the night of February 17, 2024, at about 10:50 p.m., 35-year-old Lucio Flores Diaz was fatally shot in northwest Fresno, California. Officers found Diaz with a gunshot wound to his upper body on San Gabriel Avenue near Pleasant Street, not far from Shaw and Marks avenues. He was taken to Community Regional Medical Center but died of his injuries.

Investigators say Diaz had been involved in a confrontation with another person in front of a residence shortly before the shooting; the suspect fled the scene and no identities have been released. This was the city’s third homicide of 2024. The Fresno Police Department is asking anyone with information to contact Homicide Detectives Chris Franks at 559-621-2427 or Rudy Montoya at 559-621-2449, or submit an anonymous tip to Valley Crime Stoppers at (559) 498-STOP.

Records show Diaz had prior arrests in Fresno County on November 2, 2023, including charges for inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, criminal contempt for violating a protective order, parole violation, threats of violence, vandalism, and assault likely to produce great bodily injury. Can anyone who was in the area that night or who knew Lucio provide information that could help investigators?