At approximately 11:37 p.m. on Wednesday August 25, 2021, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office Communications Center received a 911 call from a resident on the 9400 block of North Kiefer Boulevard in Sacramento stating that an adult male subject was lying on the ground outside the residential apartment complex entrance.

Deputies responded to the location and found an adult male victim who suffered from a gunshot wound to the upper body.  Fire arrived moments later and pronounced the victim deceased at the scene. The victim was identified as Toriano Miguel Mason, 20, of Sacramento.

Mason graduated from George Washington Carver High School and attended Barber College. He recently graduated from Barber College and was working at a local barber shop with his father.