Draft:2024 San Bernardino County shooting

On January 23, 2024, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department deputies were called to a desert road north of El Mirage in response to a man calling about being shot. At the scene the deputies found two abandoned vehicles and the bodies of six men, all shot to death and four were partially burned. It was later determined that the killings were a result of a marijuana sale gone awry and that five men had committed the murders as well as robbed the victims.

Discovery
At around 8:15 PM PST, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department received a call from 22-year-old Franklin Bonilla, in which in Spanish he told deputies that he had been shot but could not tell them where he was. The Sheriff's Department tracked the phone call to an area off of U.S. Route 395 north of El Mirage and west of Helendale. The deputies were accompanied by members of the California Highway Patrol's Aviation Division.

Police located five bodies scattered around the intersections of Lessing Avenue and Shadow Mountain Road as well as two abandoned vehicles, a white minivan and a dark blue SUV, the former of which was riddled with bullet holes. Four of the bodies were partially burned. A sixth person, later identified as the phone caller was later located shot to death a distance away from the others.