On June 21, 2023, 27-year-old Brazilian national Matheus Gaidos was fatally shot in Oakland, California. The shooting occurred about 6:30 p.m. in the 400 block of 26th Street in Oakland’s Koreatown neighborhood while Gaidos was delivering flowers to an apartment building. According to reports, the confrontation began after Gaidos complimented a passerby by saying nice dog; the interaction escalated and the passerby shot him.

Oakland Police released surveillance images showing a man and a woman near the scene. The man was later identified as 22-year-old Eric Loc Elvira; collaborative efforts between OPD Homicide investigators and the U.S. Marshals led to his arrest in Chicago. The woman has been identified and is no longer considered a person of interest. Gaidos had moved to the U.S. five years earlier to escape street violence in Brazil and had lived in the Bay Area for three years working as a delivery driver. His family traveled from Brazil after the shooting and called for justice.

Does anyone have information about Gaidos’s final route or the building where he was delivering flowers?