A backyard volleyball game near Southeast 26th Street and Central Avenue in Oklahoma City ended in fatal violence on May 8, 2021. Valente Torres, a 23-year-old Hispanic man, got into an argument with another man, and that man, identified as 22-year-old Giovanni Silva, produced a gun. Multiple gunshots were fired; Torres suffered several gunshot wounds and was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Oklahoma City Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

After the shooting Silva fled in a blue Nissan Altima and a first-degree murder warrant was issued, with authorities warning he should be considered armed and dangerous. Torres’s family described him as hardworking, and neighbors placed a small memorial in the backyard where he was killed. If anyone was at that gathering or has information about what happened that evening, please come forward to investigators.