On the evening of June 20, 2025, Fremont police were called just before dusk to the 39000 block of Overacker Avenue, a stretch near railroad tracks where a neighborhood argument had spiraled. Officers arrived around 6:42 p.m. and found two people shot: one with injuries that would later be described as non-life-threatening, and another who had already succumbed at the scene. The man who died was identified days later as Anthony “Ant” Santos, a male from Fremont.
It was the city’s first homicide of the year, and investigators asked drivers to avoid the area while they searched yards and streets for evidence.
Detectives pieced together what preceded the gunfire: two groups locked in an ongoing dispute over parking on land beside the tracks, a quarrel that had boiled over earlier that evening when weapons were displayed. As tempers reignited, shots were exchanged, leaving Santos dead and another person wounded. Police said they had identified all parties involved; witness accounts and video were gathered, and search warrants were served as the case was assembled.
By the end of June, the Fremont Police Department presented the investigation to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors declined to file charges at that time, and police said no arrests were made. Officials left open the possibility of future action should new evidence emerge, but for the moment the case stood as a deadly parking dispute without an accused.
Some reports described an antagonistic atmosphere in the hour before the shooting, including an allegation that the surviving victim shouted insults at individuals wearing blue and flashing gang signs, a detail that underscored how quickly a neighborhood grievance turned perilous. Authorities did not attribute the homicide to a single shooter in public statements, emphasizing instead an escalation between two groups, and repeated appeals for tips.
Public records and news coverage have not disclosed Anthony Santos’s age, nor have they specified his ethnicity beyond his name; outlets consistently identified him only as a male victim. In the days after the killing, police and local media reiterated the basic facts—Santos’s death amid the crossfire of a parking feud on Overacker Avenue, one other person treated and released, and a community left with a first homicide of 2025 that, at least for now, has yielded neither an arrest nor charges.
