A 2024 South El Monte murder was among the homicide cases for which Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced rewards Friday to help find the killers.<\/p>\n
Newsom’s office announced that a total of $300,000 in rewards was being made available for six murders, $50,000 each, across California, in hopes the money would lead to arrests and convictions.<\/p>\n
The South El Monte homicide involved 34-year-old Estevan Mejia, who was found in a dirt lot near Durfee Avenue and Rosemead Boulevard in the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area with a gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n
After Mejia’s body was discovered, investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department realized his Toyota Corolla was missing, prompting them to seek the public’s help.<\/p>\n
Following tips from the public, the vehicle was recovered the next day in a dried riverbed about three miles from where Mejia was found. The car had a flat tire and had been stripped of its radio and other valuables, according to the governor’s office.<\/p>\n
Mejia was a nurse working for the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Department at the time of his death. <\/p>\n
“Every family deserves answers when a loved one is taken by violence,” Newsom said. “If you know something about these cases, please reach out to local law enforcement.”<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the killing was asked to contact Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Detective Amber Montenegro at 323-890-5500.<\/p>\n
Under state law, law enforcement agencies may ask the governor to offer rewards in specified unsolved cases after investigators have exhausted all leads.<\/p>\n
Five other unsolved murders for which the governor’s office is offering rewards occurred in San Mateo, Sacramento, Fresno, San Diego and Ventura counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 2024 South El Monte murder was among the homicide cases for which Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3552,457,48,6105,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-506369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-la","tag-la-county","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506369","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=506369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}