Freddy Gutierrez, 26, a male Latino, was shot late on the night of September 13, 2025, while driving through the 14600 block of Larch Avenue in Lawndale. Deputies were sent to an “illegal shooting, traffic collision” call around 11:26 p.m.; after being struck by gunfire, his vehicle continued northbound and crashed into the front yard of a nearby house by the Larch Townhomes. He was pronounced dead soon after midnight, with the medical examiner later formally recording the death on Sunday.
The county identified him by name and classified the case as a homicide caused by multiple gunshot wounds, case number 2025-14626.
Authorities described the attack as gang-related and said two men were seen fleeing on foot in an unknown direction. As of those reports, no arrests had been announced; the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau asked anyone with information to come forward.
The brief violence left a quiet residential stretch shaken—headlights cutting out in a front yard, sirens rising as investigators marked the asphalt—and an official record that is stark in its finality: name, place, cause, and time. The public death notices and victim registries that followed fixed the date and location, underscoring the abruptness with which the night in Lawndale turned fatal for Gutierrez.
