Saul Serrano Rodarte, a 36-year-old Latino man, was shot and killed on the evening of August 16, 2021, near 5641 Blackwelder Street in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner records list his cause of death as a gunshot wound; efforts to save him were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Specific details about what led to the shooting are unclear, and investigators have reportedly faced a lack of witnesses and concrete evidence.

Family and community members have expressed distress over the violence and called for greater safety. If anyone has information that could help identify the shooter or explain what happened that evening, please share it with the LAPD.