Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators are asking for the public’s help locating a gunman who fatally shot a man in front of a shopping center in Pico Rivera.
The shooting was reported at 2:24 p.m. Saturday at Whittier Boulevard and Acacia Avenue, said Lt. N. Mitri of the Pico Rivera Sheriff’s Station.
The victim was believed to have been shot on the street, then stumbled into the parking lot of the center, Mitri said.
Paramedics stabilized the victim at the scene and took him to County USC Medical Center, where the sheriff’s department announced he died just before 8 p.m.
The man’s name has not be released.
Anyone with information was asked to call the sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500. Anonymus tips can be left with Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.