Trayvone Danner, 30, a Black male from Gardena, California, was killed on May 26, 2025. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner identified him and ruled the death a homicide caused by multiple gunshot wounds, with formal pronouncement recorded the following day. Memorial and incident listings place him in Gardena while news reports tie the shooting itself to a nearby Compton parking lot.
Deputies were called around 8:35 p.m.
on Monday to the 2200 block of West Rosecrans and Central avenues in Compton, where they found Trayvone Danner suffering from gunshot wounds in a parking lot. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. Authorities publicly identified him on Thursday, May 29, 2025, after next-of-kin notification.
Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide Bureau opened an investigation and asked anyone with information to contact investigators. As of the information released in contemporaneous reports, no arrests had been announced and no suspect description had been provided publicly.
Gun-violence tracking and case-index sites subsequently recorded the case under the date of May 26, 2025, listing Trayvone Danner, age 30, male, with Gardena as the associated city, aligning with the medical examiner's determination of homicide by gunfire.
