Father at pizza party celebrating his birthday gunned down and killed after trying to break up fight between 2 women: Cops

When 2 women began warring astatine a fashionable California pizza shop, a antheral went to intervene and was changeable and killed for his efforts, authorities say.

Andres Castellas, 26, was killed connected Saturday arsenic helium was celebrating his birthday, a GoFundMe set up for his family stated.

The fishy is inactive connected the loose, according to section ABC affiliate KABC.

Castellas was with his loved ones connected Saturday astatine Red West Pizza edifice successful Wilmington, a vicinity successful Los Angeles, California. He was turning 26, was a father, and according to the fundraiser, "surrounded by emotion and happiness" erstwhile everything changed.

Two women were warring erstwhile Castellas tried to interruption them up, Los Angeles constabulary said. As helium did so, a antheral fired a gun, striking Castellas and a edifice worker successful his 20s.

The edifice worker was taken to an country infirmary with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. Castellas, however, was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

"What makes this nonaccomplishment adjacent harder is that Andres was innocent," the fundraiser says. "He did not merit for his beingness to beryllium taken distant truthful tragically. A infinitesimal that should person been filled with memories and joyousness became a heartbreaking calamity nary 1 could person imagined."

The shooter ran distant aft helium fired his gun. Police described him arsenic a Hispanic antheral astir 20 to 25 years old.

One section nonmigratory expressed however the edifice is simply a staple for the assemblage and that the shooting has frightened her.

"There's a batch of kids determination each the time, similar it's kids determination each the time, and it's scary to spot that — erstwhile you tin person a household moment, thing similar this tin happen," a nonmigratory who said she lives astir the country from the constitution told KNBC.