On the night of February 19, 2023, a private event at The O Hookah Lounge at Milburn and Herndon Avenues in northwest Fresno ended in deadly violence. An altercation outside the lounge between 41-year-old Felix Marcus Sterling Hawkins and 32-year-old Akili Moffett escalated when one or more people produced a firearm; both men were shot. Hawkins, son of former Fresno City Councilmember Cynthia Sterling, was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds. Moffett was taken to a hospital with a single gunshot wound to the chest and later died.

Investigators recovered multiple shell casings but no firearms at the scene and sought surveillance footage from the shopping center and nearby businesses to reconstruct the events. If anyone attended that event or has information about what happened outside the lounge, please share details with the Fresno Police Department.