Bernardo Solorio, a 37-year-old man from Long Beach, was fatally shot on the morning of July 11, 2021, after being pursued into an apartment complex in the city’s Washington neighborhood. Officers responding to reports of gunfire at about 9:13 a.m. found Solorio in the complex courtyard with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper and lower torso. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition and died later that evening.

Investigators say the shooting was not random: a male assailant followed Solorio on foot toward the complex, fired from the area of a Dodge Charger and fled toward Long Beach Boulevard. Court records cite surveillance footage showing a silver Toyota and a black Dodge Charger arriving before the shooting, and police allege the shooter climbed the front gate and fired downward. Spent cartridge casings were recovered and, after a ghost gun seized by LAPD in November 2021 was forensically linked to those casings, detectives identified Lajuan Deshaun King as the suspected gunman.

King, described in records as associated with the Insane Baby Crips, was arrested on January 12, 2022, and charged with murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm; he pleaded not guilty in February 2022. Court records describe Solorio as associated with the Barrio Pobre gang and investigators treated the killing as gang related. If anyone has information about Solorio or the shooting, please share details with Long Beach homicide detectives.