Cedric Omar Dempsey Sr., a 32-year-old father of nine from Perris, California, was found dead in Riverside on December 22, 2020. A park employee discovered his body around 6:45 a.m. behind Bordwell Park in the 2000 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard. Dempsey had been fatally shot and the Riverside Police Department opened an investigation.

Although other people were in the park at the time, no one initially reported hearing gunfire, and at first there were no suspects or descriptions released. Detectives urged anyone with information to come forward to help solve the killing. If anyone was in or near Bordwell Park that morning or has information about Cedric Dempsey, contact the Riverside Police Department.