Juan Antonio Lopez, a 23-year-old Latino from Compton, was fatally shot on July 28, 2018, outside a liquor store in the 8800 block of South Vermont Avenue in Westmont. According to coroner’s records he and an acquaintance were walking out of the store at about 8:14 p.m. when a dark-colored sedan pulled up, three men exited and opened fire. Lopez was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:51 p.m.

The acquaintance, a 21-year-old Black man, survived and was hospitalized; four Latino bystanders were also struck. Three of those bystanders were hospitalized and one, 51-year-old Juan Manuel Ayuso, died at 8:46 p.m. The shooters fled south on South Vermont Avenue in the dark sedan; investigators had no detailed description of them beyond gender. Authorities reported Lopez was not involved in gang activity and said it was unclear whether the shooters or the wounded acquaintance had gang ties.

No arrests or identified suspects have been announced and the case remains open. Anyone with information is asked to contact the sheriff’s Homicide Bureau or Crime Stoppers.