Arrests Made In Fremont Fatal Shooting

A Fremont homicide case that had been hanging open since February just moved. Police say two men wanted in the fatal shooting near Central Avenue and Joseph Street were arrested after a separate trespassing call in Hayward. That matters because the case had sat for months with only the basic fact pattern in public — one man shot, one neighborhood rattled, no arrest announcement yet. Now there are suspects, names, and a clearer sense of what police think happened. ### What changed this week? The new development is the arrest itself. Fremont police said two men connected to the February 3 killing were taken into custody after Hayward officers responded to a trespassing report in April. The arrests were disclosed publicly this week, and both suspects were reported held at Santa Rita Jail on homicide suspicion. (hoodline.com) ### What was the original shooting? The shooting happened on February 3, 2026, at about 4:19 p.m. near Central Avenue and Joseph Street in Fremont. Officers got multiple 911 calls, reached the scene within minutes, found a victim on the ground, and tried trauma care. The victim died from his injuries. Fremont police said that day the case was the city’s second homicide of 2026. (hoodline.com) ### Who was killed? Court records identified the victim as Fernando Campos-Diaz. That name did not appear in Fremont police’s first public release, which is pretty normal early in a homicide case. But once charging details started surfacing, the case became less abstract — this was no longer just a “fatal shooting near a 7-Eleven,” but a named killing tied to a specific conflict. (fremontpolice.gov) ### Who are the suspects? The two men identified in court reporting are Ricardo Duran, 42, of San Francisco, and Kaleb Soto, 18. Patch’s account of the court file says both had ties to the Decoto gang, a Norteño subset based in Union City. That gang angle matters because it changes how the case is understood — not as a random outburst, but as a targeted clash between rival groups, if prosecutors can prove it. (patch.com) ### What do police think happened before the gunfire? The basic theory is that the suspects ran into Campos-Diaz and two other men near the Fremont 7-Eleven and a fight broke out. The fight was initially described in court reporting as even. Then, when one side started losing, Duran allegedly told others to get a gun, and Soto allegedly chased Campos-Diaz as he ran and shot him. That is still the prosecution’s version of events, not a tested courtroom finding. (patch.com) ### Why did a Hayward trespassing call matter? Because it appears to be what finally put the suspects in custody. Turns out the break in the case did not come from some dramatic fugitive sweep. It came from a routine local-policing call in a neighboring city. That’s a very common pattern in violent-crime cases — the big arrest happens because something small and unrelated gives officers the opening. (patch.com) ### What’s still unresolved? A lot. Fremont police have not publicly laid out the full investigative timeline, the evidence behind the arrests, or whether more suspects could be charged. The department’s original release called the case active and asked witnesses to come forward, and there has not been a full public case summary from police since then. ### What’s the bottom line? (hoodline.com) This story is now in a different phase. For months, Fremont had a public homicide with no announced arrests. Now police have two suspects in custody, a likely gang-conflict theory, and a case that can start moving through court instead of living only as an open-ended street shooting. (kron4.com) (fremontpolice.gov)