David Mora biography: 13 things about Mexican man who lived in California

Who was David Mora?

David Fidel Mora Rojas was a Mexican man who was in the United States illegally by overstaying his visa. He was a member of The Church in Sacramento in Arden-Arcade, Sacramento County, California, USA.

Mora-Rojas was a father of three. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. His daughter Samia Mora Gutierrez attended Leroy Greene Academy in Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, USA.
2. His daughters Samantha Mora Gutierrez and Samarah Mora Gutierrez attended Bannon Creek School in Sacramento.
3. He was Illeanna Gutierrez Rios‘s boyfriend.
4. He met Nathaniel Kong, a church elder at The Church in Sacramento, when the latter was handing out religious pamphlets at a street corner.
5. He and Rios became members of The Church in Sacramento after he met Kong.
6. He was 5’8″ tall and his registered weight was 187 pounds.
7. He was 20 years younger than Kong.
8. In 2008, Rios gave birth to their daughter Samia.
9. On March 1, 2011, Rios gave birth to their daughter Samantha.
10. In 2012, Rios gave birth to their daughter Samarah.
11. On December 17, 2018, he entered California from Mexico on a non-immigrant visitor visa.
12. When he and Rios separated amid the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which started in 2020, Kong offered him a place to live in the back house of The Church in Sacramento in Arden-Arcade.
13. On February 28, 2022, he died at age 39.

TIMELINE

2021

• Rios accused him of domestic violence and filed a temporary restraining order against him, which was issued in April 2021. The order prohibited him from possessing a firearm or ammunition. On April 26, 2021, she went to the Sacramento Regional Family Justice Center in Sacramento to ask for help.
• On May 19, 2021, a domestic violence restraining order required him to stay at least 100 yards away from Rios from 2021 to 2025. During this period, he was allowed to visit their daughters only for up to four hours on the weekend and it has to be overseen by a family friend.
• On June 30, 2021, the court ordered him to complete at least 16 sessions of anger management classes if he wanted to apply for the possibility of unsupervised visits of his three daughters. He was granted four hours of visitation on Saturdays or Sundays supervised by a person from the church he and Rios mutually agreed upon.

2022

• On February 22, 2022, he allegedly assaulted a Los Banos California Highway Patrol officer in Los Banos, Merced County, California.
• On February 23, 2022, he was arrested for resisting arrest, battery on a police officer and driving under the influence.
• On February 24, 2022, he posted bail and was released from jail.
• On February 28, 2022, he was at The Church in Sacramento in Arden-Arcade for a court-ordered visit between him and his three daughters, which was supervised by Kong. Just after 5:00 p.m., he opened fire at the church, fatally shooting his three daughters and Kong, then fatally shot himself. Rios was not in the building at the time of the shooting.