Police sought tips from the public Monday that could help close an unsolved fatal shooting that left a 22-year-old man riddled with bullets on a Boyle Heights sidewalk.<\/p>\n
The shooting occurred at about 4 a.m. on Aug. 11, 2024, near the corner of Evergreen Boulevard and Folsom Street, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.<\/p>\n
\u201cInvestigating officers observed the victim, who was later identified as Ruben Vergara, laying on the ground in a prone position and having sustained multiple gunshot wounds to his torso area,\u201d according to an LAPD statement. \u201cLos Angeles Fire Department responded and treated the victim but, unfortunately, Ruben Vergara failed to respond to medical aid, succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead at scene.\u201d<\/p>\n
Detectives obtained surveillance video that showed the suspects drive up to the location, exit a vehicle and approach the victim.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe suspects then shot the victim while he was standing on the sidewalk in front of his residence,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
Police described one suspect as a male wearing dark clothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe vehicle used by the suspect is believed to be a black Chevrolet Silverado (pickup) with chrome rims,\u201d according to the LAPD.<\/p>\n
Anyone with additional information was urged to call the LAPD\u2019s Robbery Homicide Division-Central Bureau Section at 213-980-2446 to speak with Detective J. Sanchez, or Detective L. Garcia. Anonymous tips can be submitted through L.A. Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477) or www.lacrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police sought tips from the public Monday that could help close an unsolved fatal shooting that left a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[17175,35112,35113,48,52,51,5015,47,50,49,21295,135,3161],"class_list":["post-201198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-17175","tag-boyle","tag-heights","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lapd","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-seeks","tag-shooting","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}