Santa Monica police said Manuel Reyes was arraigned on murder and attempted murder after his arrest in Mexico.

An arraignment on murder and attempted murder, with bail set at $3 million, is the charging posture Santa Monica police described on Oct. 28. It is not a finding that Manuel Reyes fired. The police accounts did not name a second person on the attempted-murder count, and Canyon News's April identification of the man who died is not the name that same paper said was undisclosed in October.

The Santa Monica Lookout reported Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, that Santa Monica police spokesman Lt. Lewis Gilmour said Manuel Reyes, 26, of Adelanto, was arrested the previous Tuesday in Nayarit, Mexico, and booked into the Santa Monica Police Department Jail the previous Thursday. The Lookout said he was arraigned Monday on murder and attempted murder and remains in custody with bail at $3 million. Tuesday, Thursday, and Monday, in an Oct. 28 story, are Oct. 20, Oct. 22, and Oct. 26. Canyon News, in an Oct. 28 story by Danny Jones, used those calendar dates and said the arraignment at the Airport Courthouse was one count of murder under California Penal Code section 187(a) and one count of attempted murder under sections 664 and 187. Patch reported the same dates, the same bail, and the same two counts. KTLA reported the same arrest, booking, arraignment, and bail. A charge read at arraignment is the state's accusation. It is not a verdict.

The Lookout said the shooting was about 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, near 4th Street and Olympic Drive, after an altercation between occupants of two vehicles. It said the suspect produced a firearm, fired at least one round, and fled, and that officers found an adult man with a gunshot wound, aided him until Santa Monica Fire Department personnel arrived, and that he was pronounced dead at a hospital. Canyon News's Oct. 28 story and Patch reported the same intersection, the same time, and an altercation between occupants of two vehicles. The Santa Monica Daily Press, in a story by Matthew Hall published at 4:11 p.m. on Oct. 28 and updated at 4:36 p.m., said investigators described what appeared to be a road-rage confrontation, and it placed the intersection about a block from City Hall and adjacent to police headquarters. KTLA placed it less than a block from Santa Monica High School. The Lookout placed it near the Santa Monica Public Safety Facility. Road rage is the Daily Press's wording. The Lookout, Canyon News, Patch, and KTLA did not print those two words. High school, City Hall, and the public safety facility are three landmarks for one intersection.

Canyon News reported April 4, 2026, that on April 1 the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner identified the man shot about 10:30 p.m. on March 28 near 4th Street and Olympic Drive as Yair Segundo Cruz, 22. Patch's Oct. 28 story repeated that name and age and attributed them to the April Canyon News report. Canyon News's own Oct. 28 arrest story said the name of the victim has not been publicly disclosed. The Lookout did not print a name. The Daily Press did not print a name. KTLA's account of the arrest announcement did not print a name. An April identification and an October sentence saying the name has not been disclosed are not the same statement. None of the October police accounts named a second person on the attempted-murder count. KTLA reported police did not say whether a second person was targeted or injured. Patch reported police have not explained that count.

Canyon News and the Lookout said the arrest was a coordinated operation of Santa Monica police, the U.S. Marshals Service's Mexico Foreign Field Office, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The Daily Press and KTLA reported the same three agencies. The department's statement, as printed by those outlets, thanked the partner agencies for help locating and apprehending Reyes. The outlets also printed a phone number for Detective Lawrence Kayondo. This story does not. None of those accounts reported a plea. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.