Louie Velasco, a 44-year-old Latino man, was shot and killed on December 6, 2021, near 2100 E. 85th St. in the Florence-Firestone area of California. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s records list the cause as a gunshot; he died at the scene in the early morning hours despite efforts to save him.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department opened an investigation. Early suggestions that the shooting might have been gang-related were not supported by concrete evidence at the time, and investigators reported few eyewitnesses and limited physical evidence. No arrests or identified suspects were reported in the immediate aftermath.

Family and community members held vigils and rallies in the months after his death to honor Velasco and to call attention to gun violence in the neighborhood. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to come forward.