Brandon Jamar Taylor, 39, was fatally shot the evening of June 24, 2021 near 10616 Budlong Avenue in Westmont, California. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s records list the manner as a gunshot death, and deputies reported he was pronounced dead at the scene despite resuscitation efforts.

Investigators described the shooting as a targeted attack and said Taylor had been involved in an earlier confrontation that day which may have escalated. Witnesses heard multiple gunshots and saw a vehicle speed away from the area; the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department opened an active homicide investigation and interviewed witnesses while collecting forensic and ballistic evidence.

No arrests had been announced at the time of these reports. If anyone saw the incident that evening or has information about the confrontation earlier that day or the vehicle that fled, please share what is known with investigators.