Delfino Moor, a 26-year-old Hispanic man, was fatally shot on Thursday, October 16, 2025, in North Hollywood, California. The shooting unfolded shortly after midday in the 7300 block of Lankershim Boulevard. At about 12:30 p.m., Los Angeles Police Department North Hollywood Area patrol officers were dispatched to what was described over police radio as an “Ambulance Shooting.” When officers reached the location, they found Moor lying on the ground with a gunshot wound.
Subsequent reporting said he had been shot in the chest and was in a rear parking lot. Los Angeles Fire Department personnel attempted to provide emergency medical aid, but Moor could not be saved and was pronounced dead at the scene. County authorities later publicly identified him as the person killed in the shooting. Published reporting did not establish Moor’s place of residence, so although the killing occurred in North Hollywood, available sources did not confirm that he lived there.
Investigators said Moor had been approached by three suspects shortly before the gunfire. According to police accounts reported after the killing, one person in that group opened fire, striking Moor. Authorities did not publicly describe an argument, confrontation, robbery, or other specific event that immediately preceded the shooting, leaving the precise sequence of events before the gunfire largely unexplained. Police indicated that the case was being investigated as potentially gang-related, although they did not announce a specific motive or explain what evidence led detectives to examine a possible gang connection. CBS Los Angeles subsequently reported that police had not provided a motive.
The investigation was taken over by detectives assigned to the LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division Valley Bureau Section. Detectives moved quickly after the shooting, identifying three people they believed were connected to Moor’s death. By the following afternoon, all three had been taken into custody. Police identified them as Angel Banuelos, Joshua Provencio and Jonathan Cuellar. LAPD records associated Banuelos with booking number 7110510, Provencio with booking number 7110520 and Cuellar with booking number 7110526. Authorities did not publicly disclose in the initial reports exactly where each suspect was arrested, what evidence led detectives to them so quickly, or which suspect police believed actually fired the fatal shot.
Banuelos, Provencio and Cuellar were each booked on suspicion of murder under California Penal Code section 187. Bail was set at $2 million for each of them. The LAPD said the case would be submitted to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for consideration of criminal filing. Their arrests therefore represented the investigative and booking stage of the case; the initial police announcement did not itself establish that prosecutors had formally filed a murder charge against each suspect or that any of them had been convicted.
Even after the arrests, detectives continued working the area around the shooting scene, looking for witnesses and surveillance recordings that could clarify how Moor was approached, who fired the fatal shot and what motivated the killing. Police publicly sought information from anyone who had seen the incident or possessed relevant footage. The fact that investigators continued canvassing after taking all three suspects into custody indicated that significant parts of the evidence-gathering process were still underway when the arrests were announced.
The publicly available online reporting located for the case confirms the arrests of Banuelos, Provencio and Cuellar and their bookings on suspicion of murder, but it does not provide a reliable later account establishing a subsequent trial, guilty plea, conviction or sentencing in Moor’s killing. No dependable online source located reported a final prosecutorial or court disposition for the three suspects. Accordingly, the latest verifiable public picture is that Moor was shot to death in the rear parking-lot area along Lankershim Boulevard, three suspects were arrested soon afterward, all three were initially held on suspicion of murder with multimillion-dollar bail, and detectives continued developing evidence surrounding what police were examining as a possible gang-related homicide.
