(L.A.) Calvin Saldana, 26, Died on a Street

Case Number: 2023-14111

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 26-year-old Latino male that occurred on a street.

The coroner’s office has identified the man as Calvin Saldana.

Manner of Death: Homicide

Cause of Death: Gunshot Wound of Back

RIP CALVIN SALDANA (December 30, 1996 – October 16, 2023)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Monday at 9:41 p.m.

The decedent was one of three who died after a shooting in the parking lot of a popular Mexican restaurant in Toluca Lake / North Hollywood.

LAPD said calls about the shooting outside Ernie’s Taco House at the intersection of Moorpark Street and Lankershim Boulevard came in around 9:30 p.m.

It’s still unclear what exactly led to the deadly shootings, but police said that three to four suspects, described only as Hispanic males dressed in black clothing, pulled up to the victims’ black Mercedes and fired several shots at the four people inside before fleeing the scene in a silver sedan.

Calvin Saldana died at the scene.

The driver of the Mercedes was able to drive himself and two others to a hospital in Burbank where two of them died.

Neither the suspects nor the victims were customers of the restaurant, which had already closed by 9:00 pm. The suspects and victimes apparently used the parking lot as a meeting place.