Jimmy Ray Hawkins Jr., 47, was shot and killed on April 22, 2022, while sitting in a parked car with a woman in the 3300 block of Andy Street in Long Beach. Around 2:17 p.m., two men in a light-colored sedan approached and opened fire. Hawkins was pronounced dead at the scene; the woman was critically injured and hospitalized. The shooting was suspected to be gang-related, though Hawkins’ family said he was not involved in gangs.

Detectives later identified suspects and brought charges. By July 2022, investigators named 19-year-old Santiago Rivera of Signal Hill as a suspect; he was already in custody on an unrelated June 3 murder and was charged with one count of murder and one count of attempted murder. In December 2022, 30-year-old Brandon Tyler Shackelford of Riverside was arrested near Palmyrita Drive; detectives recovered a firearm and other evidence and booked him for murder. Both cases were forwarded to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office for filing consideration.

Hawkins was remembered by his family as a humanitarian, artist, and singer who loved his three daughters. Does anyone with knowledge of Hawkins’ life or the shooting have information that could help investigators?