December 8, 2021 – Livingston, CA – On December 4, 2021, at approximately 11:22 P.M., the Merced County Sheriff’s Office responded to the Stevinson Bar & Grill in Stevinson, CA in regards to a shooting. When deputies arrived, they found an adult male subject, identified as 21-year-old Ricardo Moran, deceased from an apparent gunshot wound. The Merced County Sheriff’s Office Investigations Bureau was called to the scene and began a homicide investigation.

On December 7, 2021, at about 7:30 A.M., The Merced County Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team and the Merced County Sheriff’s Investigations Bureau served a search warrant in the Livingston Area. During that time Detectives took a 16-year-old juvenile into custody in connection with the homicide of Ricardo Moran.

The juvenile is currently being booked into the Merced County Juvenile Hall on Charges of Homicide.

If anyone has any information regarding this homicide investigation, please contact the Merced County Sheriff’s Office Investigations Bureau at (209) 385-7472. Any information given can remain anonymous and could help solve this crime.

Source: Merced County Sheriff's Office