Los Angeles Police Department detectives and relatives of the victim will make a public plea Wednesday for potential witnesses to come forward with information about the fatal shooting of a 32-year-old man at a gas station in South Los Angeles.
Marquette Deon Scott Jr. was shot around 11 p.m. Dec. 3 while sitting inside a vehicle at a Sinclair station in the 8500 block of South Hoover Street near Manchester Avenue, police said at the time.
Scott died at the scene.
Video from the scene showed two suspects approach in a vehicle then stop and get out, open fire and return to the vehicle and drive away from the scene, police said.
There was no immediate word on a possible motive for the shooting. Scott’s mother, Melanie Gammage, told Fox11 after the shooting that her son was a father of four children, and he was out that night buying Christmas presents.
At a news conference Wednesday morning, LAPD Capt. Jamie Bennett and homicide detectives will join with relatives and friends of Scott to publicize a $50,000 reward being offered for information leading to the person or people who carried out the killing.