Amanda Oliveras, a 4-year-old female child whose race or ethnicity has not been publicly specified in available records, died on May 30, 2004, as a result of gun violence in the small community of Catalina, Arizona. Online memorial records list her as having been shot and killed on that date, with Catalina identified as the location of the incident and her age noted as four years old at the time of her death.
Genealogical and memorial entries indicate that Amanda appears in records under the surname “Olivares/Oliveras,” with one source listing her as Amanda N. Olivares, born June 28, 2000, in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, and dying on May 30, 2004, in the same county. The variation in spelling between “Oliveras” and “Olivares” is reflected across different public databases, but they consistently connect her to the same date of death and the same area in southern Arizona, tying her life and death to the Tucson–Catalina region.
Publicly accessible sources describe the tragedy as a double shooting that claimed both Amanda and her 38-year-old mother, Bonny Oliveras, on the same day, with Bonny likewise listed as having been lost to gun violence in Catalina. Community recollections shared online mention that locals later created a small memorial near a community park and held at least one candlelight vigil in their honor, suggesting that the killings left a lasting emotional mark on the town despite its modest size. These accounts emphasize the sense of shock and grief that followed the shootings more than they do the investigative details, underscoring how little has been preserved in easily accessible public reporting about exactly what happened inside the home or immediate surroundings on the day of the crime.
Across the online record—memorial pages, brief biographical listings, and community discussion—there is no clear description of any identified suspect, arrest, or prosecution connected to the deaths of Bonny and Amanda. None of the sources that mention the shooting provide a name for a perpetrator, discuss charges, or summarize a court outcome; they focus instead on commemorating the victims and acknowledging that their deaths were the result of gun violence. As a result, from the standpoint of publicly available online information, the circumstances beyond the fact of the shooting and the loss of this child and her mother remain largely undocumented, and the status of any law-enforcement investigation or potential suspect is not clearly reported in the sources that can be viewed today.
