The Board of Supervisors re-established a $10,000 reward Tuesday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever fatally shot a 23-year-old former star football player at Compton High School and wounded two others, including a teen.
On April 16, 2013, Iyshun Dionte Tornero Bennett was attending a birthday barbecue with family and friends in the front yard of a Compton residence at 1734 W. 151st St. when someone opened fire from the street with a semiautomatic rifle, spraying the crowd with about three dozen shots shortly before midnight.
Bennett died in surgery at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. The two other victims, a 39-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy, survived their injuries.
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas said renewing the reward, which expired Feb. 6, could help bring “some sense of closure and justice to Iyshun Bennett’s family and friends.”
“The shock and senselessness of this tragedy has left Iyshun’s family devastated,” he said.
Sheriff’s detectives believe someone in the neighborhood saw the suspects fleeing the area.
Anyone with information was asked to call Detective Ralph Hernandez at (323) 890-5500 or Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.
— City News Service