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A Manteca man died at a local hospital from injuries sustained one week earlier in a shooting that was apparently precipitated by a road-rage exchange beginning on the freeway near Pleasanton and continuing east all the way into Tracy.
The Tracy Police Department confirmed on Friday that the victim, 61-year-old Ryan Wood, succumbed to his injuries earlier that day.
As a result, the defendants arrested in the case — Lodi residents Eduardo Tarvin, 23, and Jacob Nevarez, 21 — had their primary charge upgraded from attempted murder to murder, according to police.
“These two suspects have allegedly been responsible for several road rage/weapon brandishing incidents in the area over the past few months. We are asking anyone who has been a victim of these incidents, or has information about them, to contact us,” police said on Friday.
The now-deadly encounter unfolded on the afternoon of Aug. 4. Tracy police units were called to the 700 block of West Clover Road just before 2:45 p.m. on multiple reports of shots fired. Officers arrived to find a man — later identified as Wood — suffering from life-threatening injuries.
Wood was transported from the scene to an area hospital on the day of the shooting, and he would succumb to those critical injuries on Aug. 11, police said.
As their investigation developed on the afternoon of the shooting, police learned the impetus for the violence was likely a road-rage exchange between the victim and the occupants of another vehicle that began some 30 miles away on Interstate 580 near Pleasanton and continued via I-205 into the Tracy area, where the gunfire occurred.
Although the suspect vehicle left the scene, officers located it on I-205 soon after that afternoon and arrested two occupants, identified as Tarvin and Nevarez.
Police revealed on Friday that in addition to vital information from witnesses, the department’s automated license plate reader technology helped officers identify and locate the suspects within 15 minutes of the shooting.
Investigators are still looking for witnesses with information about the homicide case, as well as potential past road-rage violence involving the defendants. People can contact Detective Brian Azevedo at Brian.Azevedo@TracyPD.com or 209-831-6534 or Tracy Crime Stoppers at 209-831-4847 or text TIPTPD to 274637.
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