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Investigators Monday morning canvassed a stretch of Foothill Boulevard in Irwindale, where a 48-year-old man was gunned down while driving to work last month.
Martin Diaz of Duarte was found dead about 5:40 a.m. Nov. 25 in his bullet-riddled vehicle in the 15900 block of Foothill Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Detectives with the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau, deputies from the sheriff’s Temple Station and Irwindale Police Department officers conducted a vehicle canvas operation in the 15900 block of Irwindale between 4 a.m. and 5:30 a.m., contacting drivers and passengers “in an effort to obtain information from possible witnesses who may have seen anything related to the murder,” according to a sheriff’s statement.
Irwindale police sent to the scene in response to a call reporting a “person down” found the victim in his compact, suffering from a gunshot wound, said Deputy Guillermina Saldana of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.
“It appears the victim was driving eastbound on Foothill Boulevard when he was shot,” Saldana said.
The victim was on his way to work at an Azusa sprinkler company when he was shot, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported.
No suspect information has been released. Anyone with information that could help identify whoever killed Diaz was urged to call the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500. Anonymous tips can be provided by calling Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS.
—City News Service