Jerry Lavell Penn Jr., 27, of Lancaster was shot and killed after attending a Halloween party on October 30, 2016. The shooting happened in the 45000 block of Trevor Avenue in the early morning; deputies and paramedics found Penn next to a vehicle that his sister had been driving toward a hospital after the car struck a curb near Andale Avenue and Avenue H-14. The coroner recorded his time of death as 2:21 a.m.

Investigators determined Penn had been shot multiple times. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau opened the investigation but did not immediately have a motive, suspects, or descriptions of assailants. The case remains open with no arrests reported and investigators asking anyone with information to come forward.

If anyone was at that Halloween party or saw activity in the 45000 block of Trevor Avenue or near Andale Avenue and Avenue H-14 that night, please share what was seen with the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau.