On April 27, 2023, 29-year-old Seandell Lee Dupree Jones was fatally shot during a large house party in the 800 block of Renfro Way in unincorporated El Cajon, California. The rental home, booked through Airbnb, hosted an estimated 150 to 200 people; the gathering had been promoted on social media and admission tickets were sold on the campus of Education First International Language Centers in Liberty Station. Deputies responded to reports of gunfire and loud shouting shortly before 2 a.m. and found Jones and another male victim with multiple gunshot wounds. Jones was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:45 a.m.; the second victim, 20-year-old Jaden Davis, was airlifted to Sharp Memorial Hospital and died at 4:02 a.m.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department opened a homicide investigation. Jones had previously been convicted in connection with the 2012 death of 18-year-old Mesa College student Garrett Berki; his murder conviction was vacated in 2021 under changes to state law for non-killer accomplices, and he was released after serving eight years of a 25-to-life sentence.

Anyone who was at the party or who has information about the shootings is asked to contact the Homicide Unit or Crime Stoppers.