Gloria Zamora, a 40-year-old Hispanic woman from Fontana, California, was shot on the night of June 21, 2025, in the parking lot of a shopping plaza off Summit Avenue, outside a sushi restaurant where she had gone for dinner.
Responding officers and witnesses described a sudden burst of gunfire that left the 40-year-old mother and fitness influencer gravely wounded alongside her companion, 43-year-old Hector Garduño, before both succumbed to their injuries.
The violence unfolded at the
Falcon Ridge Town Center, a suburban mall where weekend families and late-night diners became unwitting onlookers, their routine evening shattered by the echoes of shots and the chaos that followed.
In the days leading up to her death, the 40-year-old woman had publicly shared that she was separating from her second husband, and investigators believe her estranged spouse found her at the restaurant and ambushed the pair as they walked in the lot.
Family members and police said the attacker was her 45-year-old estranged husband, identified as Thomas Alberto Tamayo Lizárraga, who confronted the couple and opened fire.
An off-duty San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy who was nearby heard the gunshots, moved to intervene, and fatally shot the suspected gunman during a confrontation at the scene.
The shootings ended almost as abruptly as they began, leaving first responders to cordon off the mall lanes with crime-scene tape and interview shaken witnesses under the harsh wash of parking-lot lights.
Authorities confirmed the woman's age and identity, as well as Garduño's, and noted that the suspected shooter died at the scene, meaning there were no arrests to announce; the homicide investigation remained active with detectives reconstructing the timeline and corroborating accounts.
Memorial pages and local reports marked June 21, 2025, as the date the 40-year-old woman lost her life in Fontana, while Spanish-language coverage called her a “mujer hispana,” echoing how the case resonated across Southern California's communities.
In the aftermath, the plaza gradually emptied, but the narrative of that night—two lives ended, the alleged assailant killed by an intervening deputy, and families left to make sense of a sudden absence, settled into the record of a city that will remember a summer evening when the ordinary turned irrevocably tragic.
