Raymond Davila, a 42-year-old Latino, was shot and killed on February 12, 2017, near South Central and Gladys avenues in downtown Los Angeles. Coroner’s records place the incident at about 3:17 a.m.; officers responding to reports of a man with gunshot wounds found Davila and he was pronounced dead at 3:34 a.m. at the scene.

In the days before the shooting Davila had been living out of his car, a detail investigators noted while trying to reconstruct events and identify witnesses. The Los Angeles Police Department opened an investigation but had not identified suspects or established what preceded the shooting in the initial reports. Anyone with information was asked to contact the LAPD or Crime Stoppers.