Uriel German Cortes, a 26-year-old Latino man, was fatally shot on December 30, 2017, in the 700 block of North Brannick Avenue in East Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County coroner’s records list Cortes as having been pronounced dead at the scene that Saturday after suffering gunshot wounds.

Investigators have not announced any arrests or identified suspects in the case. Reports say there were no clear eyewitnesses or immediate leads, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department continued to pursue evidence in the months after the shooting. Cortes’s family and community remain without answers about what happened that night.

If anyone has information about Uriel German Cortes or the shooting on North Brannick Avenue on December 30, 2017, please contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.