Salomon Mendoza Mazariegos, a 67-year-old Latino man, was fatally shot on the evening of February 27, 2019, inside a home on the 39400 block of 167th Street in Lake Los Angeles, a community near Palmdale, California. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner records list gunshot wounds as the cause of death at about 8:40 p.m.

Both Mazariegos and the suspect, identified as 47-year-old Hispanic male Carlos Marcelo Montes de Oca, also known as Carlos Marcelo Morales, lived in separate recreational vehicles on the same property. Investigators say an argument between the two men escalated and resulted in the shooting. Montes de Oca is described as about 5 feet 11 inches, 175 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes; he fled on foot after the shooting and remains at large. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has warned he is armed and dangerous and is seeking public tips, including through Crime Stoppers.

Does anyone in the Lake Los Angeles or Palmdale area have information about Montes de Oca’s whereabouts or recalls seeing activity near 167th Street on February 27, 2019?