On November 19, 2024, 32-year-old Willie Richardson IV was found with a gunshot wound on East 6th Street in Antioch, California, and was later pronounced dead at a hospital. The city recorded this as its 15th homicide of the year amid a recent surge of shootings that produced four incidents over two days.

Hours after Richardson’s death police responded to a shooting on Sycamore Drive where a gun was recovered but no victim was found. Authorities said a separate incident earlier that week left a 27-year-old man injured, and investigators believe some of the shootings may be connected, particularly those in the Sycamore corridor. Richardson had a prior arrest in 2023 in Contra Costa County on multiple charges including resisting an officer, false imprisonment by violence, corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, and a parole violation related to felony assault.

No arrests or identified suspects have been publicly reported in Richardson’s death and the Antioch Police Department is asking anyone with information to come forward. Does anyone in the Antioch area have information that could help investigators?