In the earliest minutes of August 30, 2025, Richard Galindo, age 30, was shot on the 3100 block of East Main Street in Stockton's Park District. He was rushed to a hospital, where he died of his wounds; a 19-year-old who was with him was critically injured but expected to survive. Police placed the time at about 12:19 a.m., and homicide detectives took over the case soon after.
By September 3, officials publicly identified the older victim as Richard Galindo, age 30, of Stockton.
The confirmation arrived alongside a grim tally from the same weekend, with authorities noting his death as one of several fatal incidents across the city.
Accounts that followed painted Richard Galindo, age 30, as someone caught in sudden street violence, a life upended in seconds and a family confronted with the practical and emotional aftermath. Friends and relatives described the loss as shocking and paralyzing as they organized support to cover immediate needs.
As of mid-October 2025, Stockton police had not announced an arrest, and no suspect description had been publicly released in the shooting that killed Richard Galindo, age 30. Separate arrests publicized in early and mid-October—of Walter Burgess, 23, and later Alexis Holloway, 18—concern a different August 30 shooting reported that evening near Albany and Astor drives, not the after-midnight East Main Street attack in which Richard Galindo, age 30, was killed.
The location and timing of the shooting that killed Richard Galindo, age 30, remain central to the investigation: a residential stretch of East Main Street just after midnight, a moment that left one man dead and another clinging to life. Public records that catalog such incidents list the case at that address and date, but they add no suspect names. The case stays open, waiting for the details that will turn a midnight burst of gunfire into a solvable crime.
