On the night of May 30, 2023, in Fresno, California, 18-year-old Zoe Salinas was fatally shot during a heated argument with her boyfriend, 19-year-old Jose Contreras. Officers found Salinas in the passenger seat of a vehicle near Tyler Avenue and Bond Street with a gunshot wound to the head; she was pronounced dead at the scene. Contreras fled but was arrested in a nearby residential neighborhood still armed with a semi-automatic handgun and placed on a mental evaluation hold after expressing intentions to harm himself.

Contreras, who had been in a relationship with Salinas for about four years and attended local Fresno Unified schools with her, was booked on a murder charge. Bail was initially set at $1.5 million, and a later request to reduce bail was denied so he was held without bail; he pleaded not guilty. The killing was reported as Fresno’s first domestic violence-related homicide of 2023, and local groups including Cultiva la Salud held candlelight vigils in her memory as family and friends called for justice.

If anyone knew Zoe, her routines, or witnessed the events near Tyler Avenue and Bond Street that night, can you share what you remember?