Still No Arrests In Deadly Cathedral City Election Night Shooting

On election night, Cathedral City suffered one of it’s worst shootings ever.

Five people were shot in the Dream Homes area, and two of them were killed.

Yanize Mora was carrying her 2-month-old baby boy at the time and Monday would have been her 17th birthday.

Mora’s family gathered at her grave at Forest Lawn, and all of them were emotional, saying it’s been impossible to move on knowing that her killers are still out there.

“We don’t know who these people are, and we want justice for my daughter,” said Maria Mora, the mother. “It’s not fair the way they took her from us.”

“Everybody — they know who did it,” said Martha Ohly, the grandmother. “Its very hard to celebrate holidays — to celebrate everything.”

Yanize was walking to her grandmother’s house with her boyfriend Moises Sanudo, 17, and 2-month-old baby boy Isaiah the night she died.

Moises says a silver colored Chevy HHR pulled beside them, and a light-skinned, heavy-set man with a white shirt asked, “where are you from?”

The man opened fire and the baby boy was shot twice in the leg, but made it out alive.

“How can someone shoot seeing a stroller? I don’t understand that,” said Mora.

“My girlfriend ended up dying. My friend ended up dying. I got shot eight times. My little sister got shot,” said Sanudo. “My other friend got shot, and you know my friend that passed away, Augustine Garcia, his little boy tells me, you know, ‘my dad got shot,’ and how does that make me feel?”

To this day, a small memerial is setup where Garcia and Mora lost their lives on Asistencia Drive.

Family and friends light candles and drop flowers off.

Soon, they hope to setup a permanent gravestone in the area with Garcia’s photo — an effort to make sure no one forgets what happened.

“I never imagined this would happen to my daughter,” said Mora. “She had dreams. She had goals. I always thought she was gonna be around until we got old.”

Mora’s face was painted on her loved one’s shirts who gathered for her 17th birthday by her grave, calling on the public to help track down the people responsible for her death.

She was supposed to get married to her boyfriend less than a week before she died.

“I miss her a lot,” said Sanudo. “She was everything to me.”

“If anyone has anything, anything, just call the police,” said Mora. “My daughter deserves justice. She was just a little girl and that shouldn’t happen because she was walking in her neighborhood.”

Authorities are still relying on witnesses to step forward and provide information on the suspects.

No arrests have been made.