On June 30, 2025, 38-year-old Alberto Garcia Hernandez Duran, a man from Wasco, was found shot inside his vehicle on the right shoulder of southbound Interstate 5, just south of Highway 46 near Lost Hills. He managed to pull over and call 911, but died while being taken to the hospital by emergency personnel. The Kern County Coroner's Office later identified him as 38-year-old Alberto Garcia Hernandez Duran.
Investigators with the California Highway Patrol said the shooting happened while Alberto Garcia Hernandez Duran, 38, was driving on I-5. Court records referenced by local reporters state that Alberto Garcia Hernandez Duran, 38, told an officer the shooter was in a 1990s white Ford F-150 with a motorcycle in the bed, and surveillance video captured a similarly described vehicle “lying in wait” and following his car before the gunfire.
The next day, July 1, 2025, authorities arrested 28-year-old Juan Humberto Loza of Shafter after an hours-long search that ended near San Diego Street and Highway 43. Officers recovered a handgun and the suspect's vehicle at the scene, and Loza was booked into the Kern County Jail on felony charges including murder. Investigators said evidence indicated Loza fired several shots at the victim and his vehicle.
Detectives also pointed to a possible motive: court filings indicate the Interstate 5 killing of Alberto Garcia Hernandez Duran, 38, may have been retaliation for a shooting the night before in Wasco that left 34-year-old Marissa Ramirez-Tellez dead; multiple suspects were later arrested in that separate case.
Public records and memorial listings corroborate the date and place of death for Alberto Garcia Hernandez Duran, 38, in Lost Hills on June 30, 2025, and document that the case has been treated as a homicide with an arrest of a named suspect.
