Seventeen-year-old Derek Schaefer of Torrance was killed in a drive-by shooting shortly after midnight on January 1, 2018. Around 12:40 a.m. Derek and a 16-year-old friend had just left a nearby Wal-Mart in the Harbor Gateway area when they accidentally set off a vehicle alarm. As they ran east on West 205th Street, a dark SUV approached slowly, a person exited the passenger side and began shooting. Derek was struck in the torso and pronounced dead at the scene at 1:05 a.m.; his friend was shot in the buttocks and taken to a hospital.

LAPD detectives investigating the case reported that neither Derek nor his friend had criminal records or gang affiliations. Initial efforts to identify the shooter or the vehicle were unsuccessful, and no arrests have been announced. Detectives asked for additional witnesses to come forward to help piece together what happened.

Who in the area that night saw the dark SUV or the person who exited the passenger side?