A deadly shootout on March 15, 2023, in the 1100 block of Lassen Avenue in south Modesto left two neighborhood residents dead. Gerardo Torres, 37, and Eddie Hernandez, 54, were both fatally shot after a longstanding feud between them escalated into a violent confrontation that evening. Investigators say the exchange involved two groups and that all four people involved were armed; two other individuals were wounded but survived with non-life-threatening injuries.

The Modesto Police Department concluded that Torres and Hernandez shot each other and closed the case with no arrests or further suspects. What details about the feud or the events leading up to that night might help explain how a neighborhood dispute turned into this fatal exchange?