Ricardo Daniel Fernandez, a 43-year-old Latino, was shot multiple times and killed on January 9, 2018, in Vernon, California. Coroner’s records say he was sitting in his pickup truck in the driveway of an industrial park on the 5900 block of Malburg Way when the shooting occurred. A Vernon police officer heard the shots and found Fernandez’s truck crashed into a loading dock; paramedics transported him to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead at 9:19 p.m. The cause of death was listed as multiple gunshot wounds.

Investigators believe the shooter fired from a vehicle and that Fernandez may have been specifically targeted, but no suspect or vehicle description has been released and no arrests have been made. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau is handling the case and has asked the public for tips. Few details about a motive or a suspect are available and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone in the Vernon area see a vehicle or person near the 5900 block of Malburg Way on the night of January 9, 2018?