LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $20,000 reward Tuesday for information leading to the arrest or conviction of whoever gunned down a young couple in Lancaster last fall.
Supervisor Kathryn Barger recommended the reward, saying investigators have no viable clues but believe witnesses may have seen the suspects or know who they are.
Around 1:45 a.m. on Sept. 30, 2017, 18-year-old Andrew Chavez and his girlfriend, 19-year-old Clotee Reyes, had just left an impromptu birthday party in the 43000 block of Sixth Street East and were talking with friends on the street when someone fired shots into the group from a black sedan traveling northbound.
Both Chavez, who lived in Lancaster, and Reyes, who was from Palmdale, were shot in the chest and died at the scene.
Sheriff’s officials said there was some kind of argument outside before the shooting occurred.
In the weeks after the shooting, a sheriff’s lieutenant told the Los Angeles Times that the couple may not have been the shooter’s intended targets.
“There was just indiscriminate gunfire and we think they were caught in the middle of it,” Lt. Derrick Alfred of the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau told the newspaper.
Barger is urging anyone with information to call Lt. Derrick Alfred at 323-890-5500 or Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS (8477).
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Alexis says
Too many people that have no respect for another human being’s life. Why use a knife when a gun kills from a greater distance, and makes it more impersonal. This nation is going to pay a heavy price for all the violence, and disregard for human life.
Soarensen says
Sutata in quod historiae et couse mi stulti
Tm says
Yes very sad and unfortunate that people seem to think shooting someone is the answer , truthfully it is just a weak and cowardly way to solve the problem because they are not strong enough to deal with it .. so they rather take someone’s life and for some reason think they are going to get away with it . One day and hopefully soon they will get caught or Karma will get their selfish asses!! Either way, God will set them straight and hopefully right now they feel it …