Denis Bravo Jr., a 31-year-old Latino man, was shot to death inside a Northridge apartment on March 11, 2022. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner recorded the cause of death as a gunshot wound to the neck and classified the death as a homicide. The address given was 18407 Dearborn Street, near the Cal State Northridge campus.

Police were called for reports of shots fired around 12:30 a.m. Officers found Bravo on the bedroom floor and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators say he had been in a confrontation with a 26-year-old man inside the apartment; during that altercation the suspect allegedly armed himself with a handgun, shot Bravo, and fled on foot. The motive has not been disclosed and no arrests had been announced.

A funeral service for Bravo was held on April 8, 2022, at Mission San Fernando Rey de España in Mission Hills. If anyone has information about the shooting or the man who fled, please share what is known with the LAPD.