Nicholas James Zuniga was 27 and a La Puente resident when he was shot and killed on December 9, 2020. He was sitting on a sidewalk near his home on Greenberry Drive in West Puente Valley that evening and was pronounced dead at the scene from a gunshot wound to the chest. Family and friends remembered him as a loving son, brother and friend with a calming, selfless nature.

Investigators from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department opened an immediate probe, but the case remains unsolved with no arrests reported and no publicly identified suspect or clear motive. Nicholas’s family launched a GoFundMe to help cover funeral expenses and to honor his memory.

If anyone who lived in or near West Puente Valley on December 9, 2020, remembers seeing anything that might help the investigation, please share what you know.