Ricardo Baltazar Mota, a 33-year-old Latino, was shot and killed on March 27, 2017, in the parking lot of Our Lady of Miraculous Medal Catholic Church in the 800 block of North Garfield Avenue, Montebello, California. Parishioners were inside for a prayer group when Mota met someone in the lot. Around 8:45 p.m. police received calls about gunshots; a few minutes later people found Mota slumped over in his car after it had struck another vehicle. He had multiple gunshot wounds with bullets penetrating the driver’s window and windshield, and was pronounced dead at 8:56 p.m. Mota had addresses in Pomona and Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau worked the investigation with the Montebello Police Department. Detectives sought anyone who might have seen Mota or the person he met, but no suspect description or motive was available and no one reported hearing the shots or seeing the shooter. No arrests were made in the immediate aftermath and the case remained unsolved.

If anyone knew Ricardo, saw him the evening of March 27, 2017, or has information about who he met in the church parking lot, please share what you know.