At approximately 5 pm on September 12, 2018, a man forced his ex-wife, apparently at gunpoint, to go with him to T&T Trucking Inc., in Bakersfield, California, where he shot and killed a male employee with a .50 caliber handgun and then killed his own wife. The perpetrator then targeted another employee who ran away, but he tracked him down and shot him in his car as he was trying to escape.
The perpetrator then traveled to the home of a reported friend and shot both the friend and the friend’s daughter. He then carjacked a vehicle containing a woman and her child, who escaped unharmed. The vehicle was later spotted by a a sheriff’s deputy. When approached by the deputy, the perpetrator fatally shot himself in the stomach.
The victims were:
• Petra Maribel Bolanos de Casarez (45 years old)
• Eliseo Garcia Cazares (57)
• Manuel Contreras (50)
• Laura Garcia (31)
• Antonio Valadez (50)