DATE: Sunday, May 2, 2021
TIME: Approximately 10:45 PM
LOCATION: El Segundo Blvd. / Crenshaw Blvd., City of Hawthorne
VICTIM: Male Adult
UNIT: Homicide Bureau – Lieutenant Reynaga
DATE: Sunday, May 2, 2021
TIME: Approximately 10:45 PM
LOCATION: El Segundo Blvd. / Crenshaw Blvd., City of Hawthorne
VICTIM: Male Adult
UNIT: Homicide Bureau – Lieutenant Reynaga
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide investigators are assisting Hawthorne Police Department with a shooting death investigation of a male adult. The incident was reported near El Segundo Blvd. and Crenshaw Blvd., in the City of Hawthorne.
At approximately 10:45 PM, officers from the Hawthorne Police Department responded to a shots fired call at the 12000 block of Crenshaw Blvd. Upon their arrival, the discovered evidence that a shooting had occurred, however there was no victim or suspect at the scene.
Subsequently they received a call of a traffic collision at the 3300 block of west El Segundo Blvd., Hawthorne. When officers arrived at that location, they located a Black male adult (49 years old), possibly a victim of the shooting at the 12000 block of Crenshaw Blvd. location, suffering from a gunshot wound to the upper torso.
He was transported to a local area hospital where he was pronounced deceased.
There is no additional information available at this time.
Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500. If you prefer to provide information anonymously, you may call "Crime Stoppers" by dialing (800) 222-TIPS (8477), use your smartphone by downloading the “P3 Tips” Mobile APP on Google play or the Apple App Store or by using the website http://lacrimestoppers.org
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Deputy Tracy Koerner
Sheriff’s Information Bureau
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
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