Tony Bustillos, a 52-year-old Latino, was shot and killed on June 14, 2018, in the 200 block of North Pacific Avenue in San Pedro, Los Angeles. Coroner’s records list the shooting shortly before 9:30 a.m. Bustillos was sitting in the passenger side of a dark orange Chevrolet El Camino talking with a friend when two individuals approached from a nearby alley and began shooting. He was the only person struck and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:57 a.m. The driver escaped without injury by rolling out of the car.

Two suspects were identified as Mario Enrique Gallegos, 21, and Carlos Rivera, 32. They were charged on June 18, 2018, with murder, attempted murder, possession of a firearm by a felon, attempted carjacking and related gang and gun allegations. Investigators reported the gunmen fled through the same alley they had come from. The Los Angeles Police Department, led in the case by Officer Jeffrey Tiffin, asked anyone with information to contact them or submit anonymous tips to Crime Stoppers.

If anyone has information about the shooting on North Pacific Avenue or remembers seeing suspicious activity in that area around 9:30 a.m. on June 14, 2018, please share what is known.