Daniel Jacob Sevilla, 21, of Long Beach, California, was shot and killed in the early hours of January 25, 2017. Officers were called to the 1300 block of Wesley Drive around 2 a.m. and found Sevilla with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:37 a.m. A neighbor attempted CPR, and his girlfriend, who was inside the home, heard the shots and found him outside.

Investigators determined the shooting was not random. Sevilla had posted an online ad offering a bottle of codeine cough syrup for $450 and arranged to meet a buyer that night. Detectives linked the buyer to a phone number and arrested 19-year-old Brandon Parker of Compton two days later, charging him with murder and possession of an assault weapon. Authorities recovered a bottle of codeine syrup, a shotgun, a 9 mm handgun, and a bullet hole in Parker’s car bumper; more than a dozen shell casings from at least two different guns were recovered at the scene, suggesting someone else may have fired back.

Did anyone in the Long Beach area know Sevilla or have information about the buyer who contacted him?