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A neighborhood dispute over children playing escalated into fatal violence when 55-year-old Patricia Cruz intervened after a neighbor, Jason Arroyo, allegedly threw water on her grandchildren. Witnesses say Arroyo went inside, returned with a pistol and fired roughly six shots. Cruz and one of her grandchildren were struck; both were found on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds. Cruz was taken to the hospital and died eleven days later.

Police located Arroyo hiding in a detached garage a few blocks away and took him into custody. The shooting began as an argument about children playing near a fence and ended with a grandmother dead and a child wounded. Does anyone have information about the moments before the shooting or knew Patricia Cruz and her family?