Riverside police Thursday released a sketch of one of two men wanted for killing a 27-year-old bank customer earlier this month.
Daniel Dean of Yucaipa was shot in the predawn hours of Sept. 1 in front of the Chase bank branch at 10355 Magnolia Ave., near Tyler Street.
Two assailants were involved in the attack, and investigators were able to develop a sketch of one of them, who was described as a thin black man in his early 20s, between 5-foot-9 and 6 feet tall, with short hair.
A description of the other man was unavailable.
Dean drove to the location in a four-door sedan, and while preparing to transact business at an ATM, was approached by the two men — one of whom pulled a handgun and shot him while he was still sitting in his locked car, Riverside police Officer Ryan Railsback said.
The shooter and his accomplice fled across the north parking lot of the Galleria at Tyler mall, vanishing into the night before patrol officers converged on the bank moments later, according to Railsback.
“When paramedics arrived, they found (Dean’s car) still running and backed up against a tree,” he said. “Officers broke a rear window to gain access to the victim, who suffered gunshot wounds to his upper body.”
The victim, who had a 2-year-old daughter and was engaged to be married, died at the scene.
Anyone with information was asked to contact the police department’s homicide unit at (951) 353-7137.
–City News Service