Hispanic/Latino male Feliciano “Felix” Curiel, 36, was shot and killed in the early hours of September 6, 2025, in Los Angeles after a confrontation in the drive-thru lane of a McDonald’s in East Hollywood. According to county records, the manner of death was homicide, with gunshot wounds to the torso listed as the cause; he was pronounced at a hospital later that morning. Loved ones and community pages memorialized him as details emerged, identifying him as 36 years old and confirming the location and date.
Investigators say the encounter began as a dispute between drivers in the queue on North Western Avenue and escalated when both vehicles pulled forward in the drive-thru. In the chaos that followed, Feliciano “Felix” Curiel, 36, was struck by rounds fired at close range, and his fiancée was wounded in the leg. The sequence of events described by witnesses and family members suggests a brief collision or scrape in line, tempers flaring, and then gunfire cutting through the predawn quiet.
Los Angeles police quickly identified a 21-year-old man, Humberto Delgado, as the shooter. Authorities said Delgado called police himself after the incident, was detained, and a firearm was recovered. He was booked on suspicion of voluntary manslaughter in the death of Feliciano “Felix” Curiel, 36, and later charged with one count of voluntary manslaughter and one count of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, with enhancements for personal use of a gun and great bodily injury. Court records and local reporting indicate Delgado claimed self-defense at the scene; he posted $100,000 bail and was released pending future court dates.
Community accounts and fundraising pages painted a portrait of Feliciano “Felix” Curiel, 36, as a devoted partner out celebrating an engagement milestone in the hours before the shooting. Those same posts, echoed by local and national outlets, describe him stepping between the muzzle and his fiancée in a desperate bid to shield her, a final act that family members and friends would later call heroic. While prosecutors pursue the case against the 21-year-old suspect and the defense signals a self-defense narrative, the official record remains that Feliciano “Felix” Curiel, 36, died by homicide after being shot during an argument that began in a fast-food drive-thru.
