Kenneth Steve Ojeda, a 23-year-old Latino, was fatally shot in Compton late in December 2016. Coroner’s records and investigators place the shooting on December 28, 2016, shortly after 8 p.m., near East 91st Street and Compton Avenue in the 9000 block of Compton Avenue. An unknown Latino male armed with a gun approached Ojeda, shot him in the back and upper torso, and fled. Ojeda ran north and then west into a courtyard, collapsed, and was found by deputies.

He was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead at 4:28 a.m. the following day, December 29, 2016. Ojeda provided some information to authorities before he died, but investigators have not had a detailed description of the shooter or how the suspect left the scene. There have been no arrests and the case remains unsolved.

If anyone has information that could help resolve this homicide, please come forward.