Devaughn Perkins, an 18-year-old from Menifee, California, was fatally shot just after midnight on May 26, 2018, in the area of Cleary Street and Michener Drive. Perkins, a recent Murrieta Mesa High School graduate who had completed his first year at Cal State Dominguez Hills with a 3.4 GPA, was outside a house party when a bullet struck his neck. Friends and first responders attempted to help but he died at the scene.

Investigators say there had been an altercation earlier that evening that Perkins was not involved in; he was reportedly leaving the party when the shooting occurred. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department is investigating and the shooter remains at large. Family and community members have held vigils and raised funds for funeral expenses; his mother Ernestine Anderson and grandmother Sandra Perkins have publicly urged the shooter to turn themself in and called for an end to the violence.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or who fired the shot, please come forward.