Five-year-old Eliyanah Crisostomo was killed on April 8, 2023, when a bullet struck her heart during a freeway shooting on Interstate 880 near Fremont, California. Eliyanah was traveling with her family to a birthday dinner and was seated in the third row next to her brother when occupants of a red Honda Accord opened fire on their vehicle.

Investigators say the shooters fled and were later pursued on Highway 17 to Santa Cruz, where three people were arrested: 29-year-old Humberto Anaya, 27-year-old Emmanuel Sarango, and 25-year-old Kristo Ayala Valderrama. The Alameda County District Attorney filed murder charges and counts of shooting at an occupied vehicle. Authorities reported the suspects, described as members of the Fremont Sureño gang, mistakenly believed the Crisostomo vehicle belonged to a rival and had earlier fired at a pedestrian in Fremont without causing injury.

Eliyanah’s family and the community remember her as a fun-loving child who was close to her siblings and was about to turn six. Does anyone have information about that stretch of I-880 or recall seeing a red Honda Accord in the area that evening?