Authorities have identified the man fatally shot at Bohnett Park on Santa Barbara’s Westside as 29-year-old Luiz “Louie” Terrazas. Police say no suspect has been identified or arrested.
Santa Barbara Police said officers were dispatched to Bohnett Park, 1251 San Pascual Street, at about 1:31 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026, for a report of a shooting. Responding officers found an adult male with a gunshot wound and another, uninjured victim at the scene. Officers began lifesaving measures until paramedics arrived.
The victim, now identified as Terrazas, was taken to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, where he died despite emergency treatment.
Investigators believe the suspect or suspects fled before officers arrived, possibly in an unknown model vehicle. Based on the investigation so far, police said the shooting appears to be an isolated incident and there is no ongoing threat to the public.
The 1200 block of San Pascual Street was closed for crime scene processing and reopened around 11:45 a.m. Forensic specialists from the California Department of Justice assisted with evidence collection.
Family and friends of Terrazas have organized a carwash fundraiser for funeral expenses on Sunday, March 1, 2026, at 1502 San Andres Street in Santa Barbara.
“Louie was more than a friend to us — he was family. He was funny, caring, hardworking, and fiercely protective of the people he loved,” the fundraiser states, adding that he leaves behind his son, his mother, and siblings.
An online GoFundMe has also been created and has raised more than $17,000 for Terrazas’s son.
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In a previous edhat report, Terrazas had previously been charged in connection with a fatal stabbing on State Street during a 2025 Fiesta weekend where 30-year-old Anthony Bisquera-Hartley died and two others were injured.
The Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office initially filed charges after determining Bisquera-Hartley was unarmed and fatally stabbed by Sergio Rivas, 30, and Juan Fernando Rios, 28. Prosecutors later said newly obtained video showed Bisquera-Hartley was armed and assaulted Rivas and Rios, who acted in self-defense; murder charges and gang-related allegations against Rivas and Rios were dropped.
Terrazas was originally charged with attempted murder, with allegations of committing the crime to benefit a criminal street gang and personal use of a knife. He pleaded not guilty and denied the enhancement allegations. Those charges were dismissed then prosecutors filed a new felony case charging him with assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and an enhancement for personal use of a deadly weapon. Terrazas pleaded not guilty and denied the allegations.
Police have not determined whether the Bohnett Park shooting was gang-related and said the investigation remains active.
Anyone with information is asked to contact:
- SBPD dispatch: 805-882-8900
- SBPD Detective S. Marquez: 805-897-2331
- Or provide information anonymously through the City of Santa Barbara’s Online Police Reporting System.
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If you have no idea why or who did this, how can you say there is no ongoing threat?
You’re the one with no idea, not them.
They have an idea. It was clearly gang related.
Pay no attention to the random stabbings and shootings happening around town–nothing to see here!
The dude was charged with murder from a fiesta stabbing last year, and has now been shot dead just across the freeway six months later? Interesting…
STEVE – no, Odom, he was not “charged with murder.” Read the article FFS.
What’s so “interesting” about it? Plenty of gang killings in Lompton for you to clutch your pearls about.
STEVE OD Dude, Lompoc is a horrible place to live. Drug sales on every corner, Medicaid fraud by perfectly healthy white people, bad schools, gangs, and all sorts of crime up in your hood.
More gang related violence in Santa Barbara. Sheesh