Melissa Yvette Mendoza was 27 when she was killed in a Las Vegas parking garage on February 19, 2016. She and her best friend Jennifer Margarita Chicas were in a car just west of the Strip when an argument with a man named Omar Talley escalated and Talley opened fire. Mendoza and Chicas were both fatally shot in the chest; a third occupant, Chicas’s brother-in-law Jerraud Jackson, was wounded and survived.

Authorities arrested Omar Talley and charged him with two counts of murder with a deadly weapon and one count of attempted murder. During the investigation Talley said he had little memory of the incident, claiming he had been drinking and smoking marijuana; the surviving victim, Jerraud Jackson, testified at trial. After a nearly two-week trial a jury found Talley guilty and he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Did anyone in the San Francisco Bay area who knew Melissa or Jennifer have memories of them to share or information about that trip to Las Vegas?