On the evening of November 17, 2025, Brianna Sanchez, 34, was fatally shot at an apartment complex in Pomona, California. Police were called just after 6:40 p.m. to reports of gunfire at 750 East Third Street, a large multi-building residential complex just west of South Towne Avenue and near Mission Boulevard. Officers arriving at the scene found two adults suffering from gunshot wounds somewhere within the sprawling property, whose hundreds of units cluster around shared courtyards and
amenities typical of a dense urban apartment community.
Paramedics and officers focused first on stabilizing the victims, but one of them died before she could be moved. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner later identified the person pronounced dead at the scene as Brianna Sanchez, confirming that she had been lost to gun violence in Pomona on November 17. The second victim, transported from the complex to a hospital, initially survived the shooting but succumbed to his injuries; county authorities identified him days later as 57-year-old Benjamin Aguilar Orozco. News reports characterized the incident as a single event in which both Sanchez and Aguilar Orozco were wounded by gunfire at the same address and ultimately died as a result.
In the aftermath of the shooting, Pomona Police Department homicide detectives took over the case, treating the double fatality as an active homicide investigation rather than an accidental or justified shooting. Coverage drawn from the San Gabriel Valley Tribune and its sister publications describes the event simply as a shooting between two adults at the East Third Street complex, while a summary circulated by a regional police officers’ association—based on a Daily Bulletin article—adds that detectives believe the two adults were in a relationship and that the violence arose in a domestic context. Even with that detail, officials have not publicly released a full narrative of what triggered the confrontation or how the exchange of gunfire unfolded inside the complex.
Across the publicly available reports, authorities have not announced any arrests, nor have they named a third-party suspect in connection with the deaths. The statements that have been released emphasize that homicide detectives are “investigating the circumstances surrounding the shootings” and consistently frame the case as involving the two people who were found shot at the scene, rather than mentioning any additional assailant at large. In other words, the information now in the public record points to a domestic shooting between Sanchez and Aguilar Orozco inside the apartment complex, but stops short of assigning blame or specifying who fired which shots. As of the most recent coverage, police have not issued any follow-up notice describing charges, a suspect search, or a finalized determination about exactly how the gunfire began or ended.
While investigators continue their work, the traces of grief have accumulated in quieter places. An online memorial page dedicated to Brianna Sanchez notes that she was “lost to gun violence” in Pomona on November 17 and shows more than a hundred virtual candles lit in her honor as friends, relatives, and strangers alike stop to acknowledge the loss. In the comments beneath one news story about the case, a poster who identifies herself as someone close to Sanchez insists that there was “only one victim,” underscoring the way those who knew her see the shooting: not as an abstract double fatality, but as a single, devastating act that took Brianna’s life. Meanwhile, the apartment complex at 750 East Third Street has slipped back into its routine of residents coming and going, but for those who live there—and for the people who light candles and leave messages online—the memory of that November night lingers as an unfinished story of domestic violence and unanswered questions.
